![]() If there are weak spots in his repertoire, he has yet to give us a glimpse. ![]() In the ten years since Nézet-Séguin, then in his mid-30s, made his Met debut, he has racked up a solid list of canonical operas there, including overpowering performances of Parsifal and Elektra. Even so, he will come back for just three of the 25 operas on the company’s docket for 2019–20. Only with an exhilarating postseason concert with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall did he finally change the name on the door: This is his house now. He skipped opening night last September delegated the spring’s keystone event (Wagner’s four-opera “Ring” cycle) and conducted just four performances of one slightly arcane French opera ( Pelléas et Mélisande), three of another ( Dialogues des Carmélites), and a run of La Traviata. ![]() Yannick Nézet-Séguin has just completed his first season as music director (although the transfer of power in the classical-music world can be a weirdly slow and fitful ritual). Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.Īfter a few years adrift, the Metropolitan Opera has found its sheriff - or maybe shepherd is a better word. ![]()
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