A fourth music director walks out

A fourth music director walks out

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norman lebrecht

September 24, 2014

First Gianandrea Noseda blows out of Turin.

Then Welser-Möst quits Vienna.

Next Han-na Chang dumps Qatar the morning after their Proms debut.

Now Naples has been left headless. Nicola Luisotti has announced he will leave the San Carlo after the opening night, December 12. He has been music director there for just three years. He holds the same post at San Francisco Opera.

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It’s starting to look like a lemming phenomenon.

 

UPDATE: Have maestros gone… a little … mad?

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