Albie Cabrera wrote:
>NYPO,
Kurt Masur, has been there for five or six years.
>LAPO,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, quite some time now.
>Chicago SO
Daniel Barenboim, at least 6-7 years now.
>Cleveland SO
Christoph von Dohnanyi for many years, soon to be replaced by Franz
Welser-Moest
>Philadelphia SO
Wolfgang Sawallisch, for over ten years, soon to retire.
>Boston SO
Seiji Ozawa, for entirely too long, soon to depart, thank God.
>National SO-Washington DC,
Leonard Slatkin, now in his second or third season.
>Met Opera,
James Levine, for over 20 years now.
>Berlin PO,
Claudio Abbado, since Karajan died in 1989, soon to be replaced by Sir
Simon Rattle.
>Vienna PO (Do they even *have* a chief conductor, or to they only have
>guests?)
They do not have a chief conductor.
>La Scala Opera,
Ricardo Muti for some years now.
>London PO,
>London SO,
I am not certain that either of these orchestras have a permanent
conductor. Deryk or Len would certainly know the correct answer to this
one.
>City of Birmingham SO (now that Rattle, I think, is in Berlin),
No successor has been named as yet.
>Royal Opera-Covent Garden,
Don't think they have a permanent conductor either.
>Royal Concertgebouw-Amsterdam,
Ricardo Chailly has been there for several years now.
>and Montreal (is it still Dutoit?).
Yes, he is.
>Any others I might have missed?
Those are the biggies, except for San Francisco, perhaps, which is led by
Michael Tillson Thomas.
Kevin Sutton
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