What Do We Know About Fabio Luisi?

[JSngry]

new DSO musical director, starting with the 2019-2020 season. I do not know the name but that don't mean shit.

Thoughts, opinions, etc. please?

[T.D.]

No direct knowledge, but the NY Times ran a favorable story.

[king ubu]

We do in Zurich (where, so he says currently) he will stay put as musical director of the opera. Haven't heard him do any concert/symphonic repertoire, but his tenure here (together with director Andreas Homoki) has brought plenty of freshness into a house that was relying too heavily on stars and (Italian) core repertoire and not nearly adventurous enough during the long tenure of Alexander Perreira (who whent to Salzburg, breached his contract, went on to La Scala in Milan, where at least so far he didn't stop the tradition of ending their season with a contemporary/20c opera ... going to catch the upcoming Kurtág opera based on Beckett, "Fin the partie", in November!)

But back to Zurich, the Homoki/Luisi team has indeed opened up in many directions and made the place a very interesting one for sure. We got some fine premieres, plenty of great baroque opera (with the likes of Christie, Dantone and Antonini conducting the period instrument ensemble that is also part of the house) and much more.

Either way, based on this I'd just be curious and in a generally positive mood about this.

[JSngry]

Yeah, this will be good, and might be interesting too. Hopefully both.

[MomsMobley]

 

Franz Schmidt "Book of the Seven Seals" is deep dive worth taking, also an excellent Nielsen Symphony #6 from Denmark that wouldn't embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bTYDSZPAyg

Edited July 10, 2018 by MomsMobley