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When you’re good to Fabio

by | 12:16 pm | Aug 15, 2012

A press release reads, in part: “The preeminent Italian conductor Fabio Luisi [not pictured], who holds top posts at the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Symphony, begins his appointment as music director of the Zurich Opera at the start of the 2012-13 season. . . . Among conductors on the roster whom Luisi personally invited to be part of his first Zurich season are Marc Albrecht (Tannhäuser), Ivor Bolton (Rinaldo), Teodor Currentzis (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Riccardo Frizza (La scala di seta), Eivind Gullberg Jensen (Rusalka), Patrick Lange (Abduction from the Seraglio), Thomas Rösner (Così fan tutte), Ulf Schirmer (Parsifal), Robin Ticciati (Don Giovanni), and Keri-Lynn Wilson (La traviata).”

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  • Froshlover says:

    Madama delle Fate--I was being a bit naughty in commenting that Thielemann’s name doesn’t appear on Luisi’s little list. You’re quite right about him having bigger fish to fry, and I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the Saxon Scandal involving the two conductors—especially as it landed Thielemann in Dresden as Principal Conductor. Happy days are, indeed, here again, as my Dresden friends never stop telling me.

    The combination of Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle is absolutely magic, based on their early offerings. And now that they are also in residences at the Salzburg Easter Festival….well, let’s just say if I could support myself in Dresden I’d move there in a flash to enjoy what promises to be a Golden Era of music making.

    on August 16, 2012 at 8:39 AM
  • Feldmarschallin says:

    Yesterday there was something on ARD which can be seen online as well since I missed it last night. 45minutes Documentary about Thielemann with some excerpts of the recent Ariadne from Baden-Baden with hers truly.

    on August 16, 2012 at 8:50 AM
  • Marcello says:

    I guess this is as much Homoki’s list as Luisi’s.
    Homoki (formerly at the Komische Oper Berlin) has just taken over from Pereira (now Salzburg Festival) and is leaving no stone unturned in Zurich. New conductors, new regisseurs, some new singers (and many of the old ones missing), etc.
    So it only makes sense to try all these up-and-coming conductors. Very few are conducting more than one production.
    A lot of this change has been long overdue, but it remains to be seen how the conservative and “star”-spoilt audience in Zurich will react.

    on August 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM
  • zinka says:

    Chi e questa donna??? If her earring ever fell down her dress like Caballe’s in the Tokyo Adriana…where Carreras picked it from the dress and gave it to her…. any tenor next to her would never be seen again…Well….tenors can be BOOBS, you know…

    on August 17, 2012 at 1:32 AM
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