BERLIN (EFE) .- The current general director of the Bavarian State Opera, the Russian Kirill Petrenko will happen to the British Simon Rattle leading the Berlin Philharmonic from 2018, reported the orchestra of the German capital.
“We are very satisfied with the decision taken by the orchestra and we announce to you. How nice Monday! “, The general director of the Philharmonic, Martin Hoffmann said.
However, Petrenko not take office in Berlin before 2018, when his contract with the Opera of Bavaria is over.
The dome of the orchestra, in the event that announced the decision, read a message from Petrenko thanking the election.
“I will do everything in my power to be a worthy director of this orchestra, “Russian director said.
The choice of Petrenko was finalized at a meeting on Sunday after the May 1 vote conducted among the 124 musicians of the orchestra will not achieve successor agreement Rattle.
The failure of the first attempt has led some media suggest that the appointment of Petrenko is a compromise after the orchestra could not reach a decision between two candidates.
“The election of Kirill Petrenko has been a choice of heart,” Hoffmann said when asked about it.
Petrenko’s name had been mentioned from the beginning between the candidates to succeed Rattle, along with the Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel and the German Christian Thielemann, currently leading the Staatskapelle Dresden, or the musical director of the Staatsoper Berlin, the Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim.
Petrenko, 46, is one of the most celebrated conductors of the moment in Germany, not only for his work on the Munich opera, but also for his direction of “The Ring of the Nibelung” in the last two seasons elitist Richard Festival Bayreuth Wagner.
While the public of thunderous boos Bavarian festival dedicated to the controversial staging of the “Ring” Frank Castorf, the baton of celebrated Russian director frantically.
Additionally, Petrenko had been three times as a guest in the Berlin Philharmonic and, as the representative of the musicians in the orchestra board, Peter Riegelbauer, had won the hearts of many.
Between Petrenko 2002 and 2007 was musical director of the “Opera Comique” in Berlin.
“When we have a guest conductor normally after analyzing the experience and discuss whether we should invite him again. In the case of Kirill Petrenko we not argue about whether we should invite him back but when we were going to do it again, “said Riegelbauer.
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is the only elite in the world whose director is chosen by the musicians.
Simon Rattle had been leading the orchestra since 2002 and its predecessor, the Italian Claudio Abaddo, he led the Philharmonic between 1989 and 2002 as a successor to the legendary Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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