Canadian vet takes over opera
OrchestrasVancouver 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).
It’s spelled Lacombe. He’s also in his inaugural season as head of the Orchestre Classique de Montréal, succeeding the late Boris Brott.
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.
He regularly conducts at the Deutsche Oper, among others. He used to do at least an opera a year there.
I wondered why a vet (vetenarian surgeon) was taking over an opera. The English language is deteriorating rapidly towards incomprensibility.
If you’re finding it that difficult, it must be a tremendous curiosity to you that so many veterinarians served in all past wars.
I vetted my new vet, turns out he’s a vet.
All perfectly comprehensible, thanks to the magic of context!
Veterinarian, not vetenarian — as long as we’re talking abut the slide toward incomprehensibility (not incomprensibility)…
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.
In the Brecht play CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, the character Azdak concurs with you: “Advise young man not fall military habit clipped speech.”