Handel: Messiah, Ev'ry valley shall be exhalted (Sir Colin Davis, Mark Padmore, LSO) However, in 2023, Dudamel made the shock decision to step down early just two years into his role, to reportedly focus on family.įor the 2026–2027 season, the Venezuelan maestro will move to the New York Philharmonic to take up the baton as its next music director. In 2021, Dudamel was named the Paris Opera’s newest music director and was contracted to stay for six seasons.

He rose to fame as the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela before taking on the music director position at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009. Toscanini also gave the première performances of La bohème and Turandot.Ĭonductor Arturo Toscanini directing an orchestra.ĭudamel shot onto the international stage in the early 2000s. Not surprising, really, seeing as he actually began his musical life playing under Verdi himself. Many conductors today still consider Toscanini the greatest ever conductor of Verdi’s music. He notoriously had the amazing ability to hear what each single instrument was doing even when the whole orchestra was playing together. Stokowski Rehearsal - Barber 'Adagio for Strings'įrustrated that seemingly no-one could conduct his music properly, Berlioz started conducting it himself.

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