Zurich Opera gets an extra artistic director

Zurich Opera gets an extra artistic director

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norman lebrecht

January 07, 2022

Zurich Opera has named the Italian violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi as first Artistic Director of its HIP orchestra La Scintilla.

Intendant Andreas Homoki says: ‘With this appointment, the Opernhaus Zürich continues a tradition founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, from which La Scintilla emerged more than 20 years ago – the only historically informed performance practice orchestra in the world whose members are also part of a permanent opera orchestra.’

Music director Gianandrea Noseda adds: ‘I am extremely happy to welcome Riccardo Minasi to the Opernhaus family … I am sure that his knowledge, enthusiasm, and inspiration, along with his fruitful relationship with La Scintilla, will bring extra excitement to Zurich.’

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Comments

  • bgn says:

    May there be more such musical directors.

  • Andreas B. says:

    “the only historically informed performance practice orchestra in the world whose members are also part of a permanent opera orchestra”

    Hard to believe, but Homoki and his Zurich PR team don’t seem to know about Händel’s home town Halle, its annual Händelfestspiele festival – and especially the opera of Halle’s orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle, with its own hip orchestra, the ‘Händelfestspielorchester’ !?

    https://buehnen-halle.de/haendelfestspielorchester_halle

  • Huge fan says:

    This guy is tremendous. He’s the new Norrington. Which sane people under 50 view as a compliment of course!

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