At 28, Mr. Ticciati is among the youngest maestros to work at the Met: Thomas Schippers holds the record for his debut at 25; James Levine began just a few weeks shy of his 28th birthday.
Little Louie Vega, el Maestro, the well-known, Grammy-winning DJ/producer of Masters at Work, has been a staple in his native New York's dance music scene for over 20 years.
The Mariinsky orchestra can regularly be found in venues around the world frantically rehearsing new works, often substituted by the maestro at the last moment, the violinists giving each other back-massages like a bunch of footballers in extra time.
A maestro, at your service.
'Maestro at the Opera' starts this Friday at 9pm on BBC2.
With its fatigued maestro at the helm it gave a dullish concert, ending with a downright disengaged reading of Ives's Second Symphony that failed to solve, or even seriously address, the work's notorious balance problems.
Rosenthal learned this early on from Gonzalez, a maestro at orchestrating press coverage.
We're into the finale of Maestro at the Opera (BBC2) already.
Vecchi served as maestro di cappella at the cathedrals of Salò and Modena and as canon at Correggio cathedral before his appointment as maestro at the Modena ducal court (1598).
Chris Morgan penned the draft, he's a maestro at this stuff.
