Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Last News

Javier Camarena was at his home in Zurich singing an aria from Bellini’s Il Pirata when the screen for the video feed split, and he was joined by Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal and general manager Peter Gelb in New York. “Just a second,” the tenor from Mexico said, raising an index finger.He had just finished the slow-moving first section.

Bradley Cooper has revealed that he spent six years learning how to conduct in the style of Leonard Bernstein for his new film Maestro.The upcoming biopic, which will be released on Netflix on November 24, centres on the relationship between the American composer and his wife Felicia Montealegre (played by Carey Mulligan). Cooper also directs the film, and co-produces alongside Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.At a Los Angeles screening for Maestro, Cooper explained the lengths he went to in order to replicate Bernstein’s conducting style.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Much of the buzz around Bradley Cooper‘s “Maestro” so far has revolved around his shocking physical transformation into famed conductor Leonard Bernstein, but the actor-director-writer’s prep for the role might also blow some people away. Speaking at a recent Los Angeles screening for the film in a conversation moderated by “Hamilton” Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cooper revealed that he spent a whopping six years learning how to conduct just over six minutes of music in the style of Bernstein himself so he could record a crucial scene in “Maestro” live on set. The scene in question recreates Bernstein’s famous conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Ely Cathedral in 1976.

While New York City’s Metropolitan Opera has shut its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic, that doesn’t mean the MET Orchestra has been silenced.

The Metropolitan Opera has had to shutter its down like millions of others in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This didn’t stop the lovely at-home musicians of the MET Opera to beautifully perform The ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana, led by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

A.D. Amorosi As a banjo player and as a comedian, Steve Martin has had deep meaningful relationships with many classical orchestras around the country.