Watch out for another Petrenko

Watch out for another Petrenko

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norman lebrecht

September 07, 2016

There’s Kirill, incoming music director of the Berlin Phil.

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There’s Vasily, music director of the Liverpool and Oslo Phil.

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And now there’s Mikhail Petrenko, singing Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at La Scala.

mikhail petrenko

Perhaps we need to number them.

 

Comments

  • mario lutz says:

    They are nor relatives…. so we couldn’t numbered them; another solution Norman?

  • Robin Bloxsidge says:

    Vaily once told me that Petrenko is a very common name, so perhaps we should expect a profusion on the musical scene! Numbering, though, might suggest qualitative judgements…

  • Wai kit leung says:

    How about K. Petrenko, V. Petrenko and M. Petrenko? That should do it (for now).

  • Robert Holmén says:

    Is Petrenko a fairly common name, like Peters is in English?

  • Arwe Drøv says:

    Petrenko, Petrenkeño and Petrenkito. No comment on who gets which name.

  • clarrieu says:

    Misha, certainly not a newcomer, has been for quite some years in the business, noticeably Hunding in the 2007 Aix Festival Walküre (Rattle – BPO), plus many appearances in major opera houses (including the Met). Also juror at the last Tchaikovsky competition.

  • Sue says:

    I particularly like Vasily and his work with the Oslo band!! There’s a magnificent U-Tube of them playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Josh Bell that I thoroughly recommend.

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