Marin Alsop lands a London orchestra

Among a slew ofotherwise routine season announcements today, Marin Alsop is named principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. That’s one workinng title below principal connductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Other titles include Sir John Eliot Gardiner as Principal Guest Conductor Emeritus, Esa-Pekka Salonen as Conductor Laureate and Christoph von Dohnányi, Honorary Conductor for Life.

At the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Composer-in-Residence Tania León will occupy her first season mentoring young composers.

Elsewhere, Munich’s radio orchestra continnues its cycle of early Verdi operas with US tenor Charles Castronovo as artist in residence.

And Welsh National Opera will tour a new staginng of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide.