At the end of the line, his voice betrayed immense relief.
Like many music directors, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider awaited the government's announcements on December 27 with some trepidation.
The conductor, who took over in September 2020, in the midst of a health crisis, the reins of the National Orchestra of Lyon, is giving these days, with the latter, what is presented as one of the summits of the season:
La Chauve-Souris
, by Strauss.
To discover
The Nutcracker,
considered racist, will he survive the era of "cancel culture?"
An emblem of the Viennese operetta and the end of year celebrations that the symphonic formation gives with costumes and staging, with the complicity of Jean Lacornerie.
“For me as for the whole orchestra, it's a considerable challenge,
concedes the conductor.
We are not an opera house, we are not naturally used to having to solve so many logistical problems, from the delivery of costumes to the distribution of roles ... We are not talking about two or three soloists , but about ten singers!
Despite everything, it seems to me that this guy ...
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