A music director is plucked from the Rhine

A music director is plucked from the Rhine

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norman lebrecht

June 23, 2023

The next Principal Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg will be the current season’s junior Kapellmeister, Vitali Alekseenok.

The Belarus national, 32, won the 2021 Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has directed the Kharkiv Music Festival, organising concerts in bomb shelters, subways and hospitals.

He will succeed outgoing GMD Axel Kober in 2024 and is a promising homegrown appointment, plucked from the pit of the Rhine.

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