Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor of orchestras in New York City, Philadelphia, and Montreal, wants to break down the walls that have kept some audiences from classical music and opera.
"— based on a memoir by journalist Charles Blow and composed by jazz legend Terence Blanchard - sold-out and outsold Verdi's classic"Rigoletto" here that season. What's more, half the seats were filled by first-time Met goers.
"Champion," another Terence Blanchard composition based on the complicated life of Emile Griffith, a bisexual prizefighter.Jon Wertheim: How do you thread that needle between-- experimenting and bringing in new audiences, but also not upsetting the traditionalists? Terence Blanchard: He gets the story. He gets the whole notion of bringing these different styles of music together.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin: I would go to a record store and buy CDs and discover repertoire after repertoire, every symphony by Brahms, every symphony by Beethoven, by Bruckner, by Mahler. I wanted then to hear every version and buy every version of every symphony. And I'm not shy to say that it-- it's-- it's shaped a lot of who I am as a musician. Because eventually it became a collection of, like, 12,000 CDs.
And it was his mom who managed Yannick's schedule throughout his 30s, as he worked the international circuit - London, Vienna, Rotterdam - guest conducting 100 orchestras.
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