Fabio Luisi has been hired as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra starting with the 2020-21 season. Luisi will become just the fourth music director for the Dallas Symphony in more than four decades after Eduardo Mata (1977-93), Andrew Litton (1994-2006) and Jaap van Zweden (2008-18), who starts as music director of the New York Philharmonic next season. After conducting the Dallas Symphony for the first time in 2002, Luisi did not return until this March. ... You can step out a little bit of let's say the normal paths of programming and make some experiments and also take a little bit of risk. Luisi has been general music director of the Zurich Opera since 2012, principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra since last year and director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino since April.

Source: ABC News June 04, 2018 19:55 UTC