Mr. Muti was given a rousing reception when he returned to La Scala on Monday with the Vienna Philharmonic, but Mr. Lissner must find new conductors to replace him for several opera performances this season as well as for four Mozart operas next season celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
It added that the rest of the orchestra's season would take place as scheduled and that the names of conductors to replace Mr. Dutoit in the 11 concerts he was to lead this season and the 35 of 81 he was to lead in 2002-3 would be announced in the coming weeks.
I can't do anything about it". The orchestra has been auditioning guest conductors to replace Clark, who was forced out in February , 1988 after a bitter dispute with the board of directors over artistic direction and control of the orchestra he founded in 1979.
One suggested possibility is that the conductor chosen to replace him, Serge Koussevitzky, was thought more charismatic, with greater box-office appeal.
Soon the orchestra will be the main tenant in the new arts center, and a new conductor is expected to replace Mr. Sawallisch, who is 76, once the move is made.
The Philadelphia Orchestra has done something similar, appointing Charles Dutoit as chief conductor while it looks to replace Christoph Eschenbach, who departs as music director after next season.
Christopher Deacon, who became the orchestra's managing director in 1996, hired Mr. Zukerman to replace the English conductor Trevor Pinnock in 1998.
In 1821, Nicolò Paganini was in Rome to replace the conductor who was supposed to lead the premiere of Rossini's Matilde di Shabran.
Among the conductors reportedly invited and unable to replace Mr. Maazel were Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, Kent Nagano, Franz Welser-Möst and Mr. Domingo. Welser-Möst and Mr. Domingo
Unlike other maestros trooping across the Philharmonic podium these days, Ilan Volkov, an Israeli conductor, seems not to be a candidate to replace Kurt Masur as music director.
