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Metropolitan Opera Uses Two Conductors
Thu Dec 25, 1:25 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031225/ap_en_mu/people_conductors
NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera needed two conductors to
get through its Christmas Eve performance of Berlioz's
"Benvenuto Cellini."
Artistic director James Levine began Wednesday night in the
pit, but at the end of the first scene, Derrick Inouye suddenly
appeared on the podium and conducted the remaining two scenes
in the first act.
Levine has had a cold, and Met spokesman Jonathan Tichler
said at intermission that the maestro thought he was blowing
his nose so much that it became a distraction. In addition,
Levine's eyes teared up so much that he had trouble reading
the score.
Levine returned after intermission and, seated and hunched
over the score, conducted the second act. After the opera,
Levine and Inouye both appeared for curtain calls.
Inouye, a Canadian, is music director of the Regina Symphony
and principal guest conductor of the Norddeutsche Philharmonic
in Rostock, Germany. He had replaced Levine for the Dec. 18
performance - Inouye had been scheduled to make his Met debut
in this opera on Jan. 1.
With its offices closed for the holiday, the Met could not
determine the last time two conductors were needed for a
regular performance.
On the Net:
http://www.metopera.org
-Neb Rodgers <[log in to unmask]>
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