Nezet-Seguin, Yannick

New accounts of standard works, even those covered by dozens of classic recordings, can still enliven classical music. Source

The artist William Kentridge uses his trademark animations to stage Berg’s bleak opera about a delusional soldier. Source

Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s first performance of the Metropolitan Opera this season offers a glimpse into the company’s artistic future. Source

At the end of Jaap van Zweden’s rookie season at the New York Philharmonic, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s at the Met Opera, they chatted. On neutral ground. Source

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, discusses a passage from Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites,” which returns this week. Source

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest conducting appearance at the Metropolitan Opera and a newly reissued boxed set of music by black composers were among the highlights. Source

Openly gay performing arts leaders are still rare. So it was a breath of fresh air to chat about coming out and Celine Dion with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his partner. Source

For his debut as the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is conducting a stylish Verdi staging starring Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Flórez. Source

Turning the page with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, its first new music director since 1976, the Met is readying new works — and planning forays into its city. Source

It wasn’t planned this way. But the city’s main opera company and symphony orchestra are both getting new music directors this season. Source


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