Breaking: Tokyo hires naked music director
OrchestrasThe Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has just announced the Swiss Lorenzo Viotti as its next music director.
Viotti, presently with Netherlands Opera, is known best for his narcissitic selfies on social media.
Press release:
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Chairman Tatsuya Okazaki and Managing Director and Executive Director Yoshitaka
Hirooka announced today that conductor Lorenzo Viotti will become the Orchestra’s next Music Director, beginning in the 2026/27 season. The initial agreement is for three years.
As the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra’s fourth music director, Mr Viotti will succeed Jonathan Nott, whose tenure began in 2014 and ended with the 2025/26 season. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1990, Viotti, now 34, is Chief Conductor of the Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He already regularly conducts many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in June 2024 he led a tour of Germany, Switzerland, and Spain with the Vienna Philharmonic. In opera, in addition to the Dutch National Opera, he conducted Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (new production) directed by Daniele Abbado at La Scala in February 2024 and Kalman’s Die Csardasfurstin at the Zurich Opera in April 2024. He is currently sought after by many of most prestigious orchestras and opera houses.
The Bill Clinton of classical music would – I think – sell his soul to the Devil to be able to post such pictures of himself on social media.
But he can’t, for two obvious reasons. Can you guess what they are?
(Hint: it’s not because the Devil does not exist)
Bill Clinton wasn’t into selfies.
He let others do the job.
Is his stick work as good as his looks?!
“Does his stick work . . . ?” or, “Is his stick working .
. . ?”
More power to him. He must have some ability on the podium and from videos I’ve seen he clearly has some charisma and charm that many people, men and women, find irresistible. He’s obviously put in a lot of effort to take care of his body and a lot of critics are either jealous that they don’t look like that or that they can share an intimate evening with him. In the modern world your image matters more than ever, like it or not. Sure, hi appearance helped him along the way: he understands human emotion and played the game well.
Heard him a few tiyboth in concert and opera and he is very impressive. The Lohengrin last year was exceptionally good and the Dutch audience really rate him.
I don’t blame him for showing off considering how much effort he must put into personal fitness. Let’s hope he dedicates a equivalent amount of his time and (abundant) energy to music
There is nothing wrong with having pride in one’s physical accomplishments. However, this gentleman’s prediction for public display lies somewhere between narcissism and exhibitionism. All in all, not a pretty picture.
“predilection”, not “prediction”
And why.not ? No one forces you to look…..
1) “narcissistic selfies” is a pleonasm
2) seen any selfies that is not narcissistic?
3) I bet he is very adapt at wielding his selfie stick ; )
Oops — autocorrect. — “predilection”, not “prediction”.
I don’t think the carefully posed nudity will be a problem for Japan… unless he has tatoos.
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Are his selfies irresistible to editorial here? He seems a pretty normal guy who is an accomplished athlete. Not just a fine conductor, but relatable to a lot of people. Less pearl clutching always a very good thing in classical music.
Very best of luck to him.
The writer must just be jealous of the maestro’s attributes and attraction. He’s an accomplished conductor on the rise. No need to be nasty.
Why use “shirtless” in the headline when the inaccurate but more titillating “naked” will do just fine
All selfies are by definition narcissistic…
Shirtless concerts with Viotti should become a thing!
Don’t eat sushi, it’s got worms in it.
goddamn!!!…
The press release is almost too much. As for mentioning a collaboration with Daniele Abbado as stage director, well, I’d have kept that quiet.
My fly on the wall tells me that Mr Viotti trained with very heavy batons, and that this now helps him tremendously to get through allegrissimo passages with a normal, light baton and without any physical trouble.
He had taken these drastic measures after seeing his father suffering from back pain because of only using very light batons in fast passages.
He’s known best ON THIS SITE for narcissistic selfies. Elsewhere he is known primarily as a conductor.
Male version of Yuja.
Yeah – let’s call him “Yujo”!!!