Orchestra claims highest number of married couples
mainThe Boston Symphony is claiming a world record for 17 married couples taking part in this weekend’s Tanglewood performance of Aida.
Six of the couples are players in the orchestra, eight are in the Tanglewood chorus. An associate concertmaster has engaged his freelance wife.
Violeta Urmana, who sings Amneris, is married to tenor, Alfredo Nigro.
And the whole enterprise is topped by Mr & Mrs Maestro – music director Andris Nelsons, whose wife Kristine Opolais sings the title role.
Beat that, anyone?
In the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra alone we have 10 playing couples;
and I even don’t mention the playing divorced ones 🙂
I don’t believe the BSO claimed it as a world record in anything I read. Following story only says “most wedded pairs to perform together in the orchestra’s 134-year history”.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MARRIED_TO_MUSIC?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The Spokane Symphony has eight. (General Manager and Personnel Manager are also married, which makes us a mom-and-pop company, right?) No idea how many choristers are married to each other, though. Probably a lot…
Would that be jobs for the, er, girls at all? Same for Ms. Kozena.
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra has nineteen playing couples and one mixed couple (oboe and archive).
that has to be a record!