In Thursday’s (1/29) New York Times, Adam Nagourney writes, “Gustavo Dudamel is not taking over as music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic until September. But he has begun to signal his ambitions for this high-profile next chapter of his career, with an announcement on Thursday that the orchestra would perform operas on the stage of Carnegie Hall starting this fall…. Initially, the Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall will collaborate for five seasons, with Dudamel leading the orchestra in an annual concert opera, beginning in November with a two-night run of Puccini’s ‘Tosca.’… Dudamel and Matías Tarnopolsky, the Philharmonic’s president and chief executive, said that from their earliest discussions about the Dudamel era, they had talked about working with other New York cultural institutions, such as the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a salsa and Latin jazz band, which will join Dudamel and the Philharmonic at Geffen Hall in May. These kinds of collaborations, Tarnopolsky said in a statement announcing the Carnegie Hall arrangement, would be a ‘centerpiece’ of what Dudamel would do during his tenure in New York. Many of the details of those expanding programs are being worked out now, to be in place when he officially arrives in September.”
