When Daniel Barenboim was first hired at the Bayreuth Festival in the 1980s, he had not yet conducted a Wagner opera. To train - we dare not say "run" - he gave versions in concert with the Paris Orchestra of which he was then musical director. It was a "winning winner": the inexperienced maestro acquired the trade he lacked to face these challenges, and the orchestra worked with this sublime music, usually reserved for phalanxes of opera.
An evening of thrills, which electrified an audience frustrated at not hearing more often in Paris a monumental and fascinating score, daily bread in Vienna and MunichThe formula made small. Appointed musical director of the Metropolitan Opera of New York in 2018 after a first part of his career mainly symphonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin inevitably tackles certain titles for the first time. Nothing like a trial gallop upstream with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, to which he remains very attached although he is no longer officially at its head. History of not ending up in the pit of the Met facing an orchestra that knows
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