Read moreThursday, New York’s Metropolitan Opera officially confirmed rumours Nézet-Séguin will be the next music director of North America’s largest opera company. Canada’s super-conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin — who leads the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain — has added yet another podium to his list. And James Levine, its music director of the past four decades, is in poor health, with plans to retire. In the 2017-18 opera season, he will be “music director designate” — and it won’t be until 2020-21 that he will well and truly be the Met’s music director. What it desperately needs is a music director esteemed enough to satisfy traditionalists and exciting enough to intrigue the world at large.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 00:42 UTC