Sentence examples for house conductor from inspiring English sources
The house conductor, George Manahan, will lead the proceedings.
Marco Armiliato, a reliable, experienced and, lately, very busy house conductor at the Met, took over on short notice for the second performance on Saturday.
'ATTILA' (Friday and Monday) Marco Armiliato, who has proved a solid house conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and is capable of top-notch work, has the unenviable assignment of taking over from Riccardo Muti in the Met's new production of Verdi's "Attila".
But that was in 1985, and it took until Tuesday evening for this chamber opera to have a New York performance: an unstaged concert version at Alice Tully Hall by the Collegiate Chorale, with help from the Orchestra of St . Lukes and Michael Riesman, Mr. Glass's house conductor.
The conductor, Carlo Sabajno, had been the Gramophone Company's house conductor since 1904; he had made recordings of Verdi's Ernani and Rigoletto before tackling Tosca with a young and largely unknown cast.
Not much contrast either in the approach of the three "house" conductors, Daniel Barenboim, James Levine and Giuseppe Sinopoli, worthy though they all are.
Still, his trouble made me think back to those Italian house conductors I heard at the Met in my youth, like Fausto Cleva and Nello Santi.
The old-time house conductors in opera were typically patronized as lesser musicians who earned their keep by catering to prima donnas and learning how to conduct a flexible oom-pah-pah.
After the show I usually cook for myself, or I'll have dinner with the two American house conductors in a local Italian place called Romeo, which is quite appropriate.
All of that said, there are still too many nights when the Met presents performances of "La Bohème" and other standard fare with the orchestra on automatic pilot under workaday house conductors.
Among his many posts were music director of La Scala, Milan's famous opera house, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1988, and from 1989 to 2002 he was the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
