The Met picks temporary #1 oboe

The Floridian Mitchell Kuhn will be standing in as acting principal oboe at the Metropolitan Opera for the unspecified future.

He writes:
I am so thrilled (and still a little schocked) to announce that I’ll be joining the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as acting principal oboe. I’m so incredibly lucky to have had such incredible teachers, and I could never thank Eric Olson, Robert Walters, Nathan Hughes, Elaine Douvas, Eugene Izotov, Christopher Philpotts, Jim Daniels, Christopher Banks, and Kenneth Williams enough for teaching me so much about life, auditions, music, oboe, and reeds. I also couldn’t do it without the love and support of my family (Ouida, Kirk, Kathryn), the best friends in the world, and Natalia, who’s heard more oboe mock auditions than anyone rightly deserves. Also, if anyone knows of anyone subletting a place on the UWS please let me know See you back in the city!