Canadian vet takes over opera

Canadian vet takes over opera

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

October 12, 2023

Vancouver Opera has filled its music director vacancy.

The new chief, following 20 years with Jonathan Darlington, is to be Jacques Lacombe, a circuit veteran.

Lacombe, 60, has been music director of the Mulhouse Symphony (2017-2021), Bonn Opera (2016-2018), Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières (2006-2018) and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (2010-2016, pictured).

 

 

Comments

  • Emil says:

    It’s spelled Lacombe. He’s also in his inaugural season as head of the Orchestre Classique de Montréal, succeeding the late Boris Brott.

  • msc says:

    It’s an interesting choice. But he had only two years in Bonn. His positions have tended towards relatively short terms. It’s hard to find out how much opera he has otherwise conducted.

  • Harry Collier says:

    I wondered why a vet (vetenarian surgeon) was taking over an opera. The English language is deteriorating rapidly towards incomprensibility.

    • V.Lind says:

      If you’re finding it that difficult, it must be a tremendous curiosity to you that so many veterinarians served in all past wars.

    • Peter San Diego says:

      Veterinarian, not vetenarian — as long as we’re talking abut the slide toward incomprehensibility (not incomprensibility)…

    • Wannaplayguitar says:

      I agree….this Americana clipping of words leads to (temporary) confusion…..I thought…how nice, we’ve had doctors, ex prime ministers, airline pilots etc.on the rostrum and now we’ve got vets who can advise about sick pets in the tea break.

      • Joel Kemelhor says:

        In the Brecht play CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, the character Azdak concurs with you: “Advise young man not fall military habit clipped speech.”

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