I believe the Met is the greatest opera company in the world with the best principal singers on the planet Yannick Nézet-SéguinĪlthough he has conducted widely in the UK, Nézet-Séguin has done little opera in the country. His Wagner debut at the New York theatre comes later in the season with a production of Der Fliegende Holländer. Nézet-Séguin has since conducted Don Carlos, Rusalka and La Traviata there, and opened the 2015-16 season with Verdi’s Otello, about which the Wall Street Journal wrote: “If the action on the stage sometimes flagged, there was plenty in the pit, where the superb conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, etched a high-tension dramatic arc.” Nézet-Séguin made his Met debut in 2009 conducting Bizet’s Carmen – a “bracing, fleet and fresh account of the score” from which “the singers benefited immensely,” wrote the New York Times’s reviewer. During the interim period, Nézet-Séguin assumes the title music director designate and will conduct two operas a season, although he will be involved from the outset in the company’s artistic planning. Nézet-Séguin will not take up his position officially until the 2020-21 season due to existing commitments.
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