Leipzig names first Kapellmeisterin
OperaLeipzig Opera has engaged the South-Korean conductor Yura Yang, 34, as its first Kapellmeister.
She is presently at Staatstheater Karlsruhe and was previously at Aachen.
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congratulations!
a conductor who knows what she wants, with a fine ear and good people skills.
incidentally, this coming Monday Frau Yang will be conducting an interesting concert with works by Holmès, Farrenc and Mendelssohn:
https://www.theaterregensburg.de/produktionen/zauberhaft-4-philharmonisches-konzert.html
Bravo for the appointment!
No disrespect to Leipzig and Yura (whom I don’t know), but is this truly a news-worthy event for slippedisc? Or do I sense a overreaction due to her being female? Would this have been announced here if a guy had gotten the position?
In any case, all the best to her!
Such appointments are routinely announced on SD, irrespective of the appointee’s gender.
She’s an incredible musician with the most refined and impressive hearing. She will go extremely far, and rightly so. So happy for Yura! Congrats on this excellent position!
welcome to the post-pandemic all-inclusive all-woke-up New World. I hear the next LA Phil MD will be an asian female also.
That’s a pretty small baton.
it’s not the size it’s how you use it.