Breaking: Italy appoints first woman chief of major opera house

Breaking: Italy appoints first woman chief of major opera house

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norman lebrecht

October 11, 2021

The Teatro Comunale of Bologna has named the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv as its music director from January 2022.

Lyniv, 43, made her name last summer as conductor of The Flying Dutchman at Bayreuth. Before that, she was music director in Graz, Austria.

In Bologna she will be required to conduct two operas and two concerts each season.

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She succeeds Michele Mariotti.

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