The Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel is the new musical director of the Paris Opera

The Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel will be the new musical director of the Paris Opera, announcing this event at the institution, one of the most prestigious in the world. The acclaimed director of the orchestra, for 40 years, occupies this cargo from August and for a term of six years, as long as he is in front of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

It will be the first Latin American to sum up the rents of a major European opera, despite the fact that the Argentine-Israeli Daniel Barenboim will perform musical director of La Scala de Milán in 2011, cargo that day in 2014. “I am very moved and pleased to be here in this magnificent house”, dijo Dudamel in the Palacio Garnier, historic temple of the Paris Opera, during a retransmission press window by Zoom. “I have a very difficult year” due to the pandemic, if there is a “deep responsibility”, added.

Dudamel, who conducted first the Paris Opera Orchestra to La Bohème by Puccini in 2017, replaces the Swiss Philippe Jordan. “I could not believe that I was hallucinating in front of this opera, that I hallowed my spiritual spirit” for the lyric, dijo el venezolano. Considered by very young people as a prodigy of the batuta, Dudamel’s style is unfathomable: with its characteristic cabaret laughter, the director can talk to his orchestra with an energetic gesture, moved by an emotion that has made the audience world stage mayors.

The Paris Opera will deliver a new retort, since it is most known for conducting symphonic orchestral orchestras. The Director-General of the Paris Opera, Alexander Neef, rated Dudamel as “Emblematic” Orchestra Director and one of the “Most Talented and Prestigious of the World”. During his first year, Dudamel will be responsible for at least three lyrical and choreographic productions, a work that will be continued during the second season, says Neef.

In addition to his double role as musical director in Paris and Los Angeles, Dudamel ensured that he would collaborate with the orchestra Simón Bolívar of Venezuela. “It’s my family, the group with whom I developed from my niece”, sostuvo, recording the relationship with his master, José Antonio Abreu. Dudamel is one of the world’s top paid orchestra directors, following the state press, which evaluates its annual salary at three million dollars. Asking about his contribution to the Paris Opera, Neef stated that “he has no intention” of communicating the mountain, since it is a “very habitual” series.

Since adolescence, Dudamel has been a member of Venezuela’s Infantile and Youth Orchestra System, a program founded by Abreu that has access to music education for miles of popular classes, and has been replicated for over 40 years. Great director of orchestra like the British Simon Rattle is playing in this young prodigy, who 17 years ago conducted the youth orchestra Simón Bolívar. In 2004, Gustav Mahler conducted the first conducting competition in Germany, opening the gates of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.

Posteriormente, solo solo 28 years, musical comic director and Los Ángeles. In 2012, the first Grammy Award with the direction of Brahms: Symphony no. 4. También converts to the first director to perform during a Superbowl show, as well as the first Venezuelan to receive a star in the Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood, which leads to his superstar family.

Dudamel, married to the Spanish actress María Valverde, also has a wide range of criticisms on the part of women considered to last for a long time to avoid denouncing the abuse of vengeance in Venezuela, acting in its official acts, as in the funeral of Hugo Chávez. A silence that took place in 2017, criticizing a brutal repression that killed 200 people in protests in the South American country.

Source: AFP

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