MILAN (AP) — South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the brand new musical director of the famed Milan opera home, Teatro alla Scala, the primary Asian to carry the place.
Chung, 72, will substitute Riccardo Chailly on the finish of subsequent yr, and can stay within the position till normal supervisor and inventive director Fortunato Ortombina’s time period ends in February 2030, La Scala stated in an announcement.
Chung, who can be a famend pianist, has performed lots of the world’s most well-known orchestras, and is a towering cultural determine in South Korea.
La Scala famous his “close and productive” relationship with La Scala’s orchestra, choir and philharmonic, and credited him with doing greater than some other any non-musical director to boost La Scala’s worldwide profile.
Since 1989, Chung has performed 9 operas in 84 performances, and 141 live shows at La Scala — probably the most of any conductor who was not a musical director. He additionally has performed La Scala’s Philharmonic on excursions all through Italy and overseas, together with in Germany, China, Japan and South Korea.
Amongst his quite a few posts, Chung has beforehand been music director of the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris and the Korean Broadcasting System, in addition to inventive director of the Busan Opera and Live performance Corridor in South Korea.
