【短信】Jakub Hrůša がRoyal Danish Opera Music Director

東京都交響楽団の首席客演指揮者Principal Guest Conductor である ヤコブ・フルシャが，Royal Danish Opera のMusic Directorに来年から就任するそうです．

Music Director and Chief Conductor, Prague Philharmonia
Music Director, Glyndebourne on Tour
Principal Guest Conductor, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

に加えて，30歳で，もう一つの重要ポストMusic Director Designate, Royal Danish Opera に決定したというのですから，たいへんお目出度い出来事ですし，ますます中間層を飛び越えて，若手が主要ポストに就き始めている実情を見る気持ちです．

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Royal Danish Opera appoints new music director

 

Jakub Hrůša to take on role from 2013

Fri 30th September 2011

Jakub Hrůša - Danish post

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša will take on the music directorship of the Royal Danish Theatre and its associated opera company from August 1, 2013.

Hrusa, 30, is currently music director of both Glyndebourne on Tour and the Prague Philharmonia, and will serve as an artistic consultant to Denmark’s flagship theatrical organisation until his arrival in Copenhagen.

This year has seen high-profile departures from the subsidiary Royal Danish Opera, as music director Michael Schønwandt and artistic director Kasper Holten – both native Danes – left the company.

Artistic director of the opera Keith Warner today described Hrusa as the ‘perfect man’ for the job. Warner was charged with appointing a new musical leader as soon as he arrived in Copenhagen in June. In line with Denmark’s stringently open democracy, the post was advertised and Hrůša applied along with 147 other musicians.

Gramophone’s June issue listed Hrůša as one of ten young conductors ‘on the verge of greatness’. With Glyndebourne’s touring arm the Czech musician has proved a distinct success; liked by musicians for his combining of firm interpretative ideas with a sound work ethic and humble, friendly demeanour. He conducted the Royal Danish Opera’s production of Boris Godunov in January 2011 and became, in Warner’s words, ‘hugely beloved and admired by our orchestra, chorus and soloists’.

With Hrůša’s new post comes the default music directorship of the Royal Danish Orchestra, which has a good claim to be the world’s oldest orchestra with its organisational roots stretching back to 1448. For opera and ballet productions the ensemble plays in the pit of the ‘old stage’ in central Copenhagen and of the new Operaen on the island of Holmen – a gift to the Danish people from the Maersk shipping dynasty, which opened in 2005.