Sentence examples for star conductor from inspiring English sources
Adding cachet are a star director, Patrice Chéreau, and a star conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, both making Met debuts.
The young German star conductor Christian Thielemann conducted the opera at Covent Garden this past season and will bring it to the Lincoln Center Festival next week.
"I want to see the Golden Pudel DJ on the podium inside the Elbphilharmonie and [American star conductor] Kent Nagano inside the Pudel club".
While Herbert von Karajan, another star conductor, allowed Nazi bigwigs to celebrate him and actually became a party member, Borchard handled logistics for the underground -- finding hiding places, identification and ration cards for the "U-boats".
The New York Philharmonic, even without a star conductor or soloist, drew a huge crowd, estimated at 80,000 people, to the Great Lawn in Central Park on Wednesday evening for the first of this season's Concerts in the Parks.
Barenboim arrived on the platform with the four soloists for Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, which might have been chosen to throw focus on the players rather than their star conductor.
Like other international star conductors, Salonen worked with many of the world's most highly regarded orchestras.
In fact, there are only two star conductors in the world.
To see and hear favorite productions performed by star conductors and singers, opera lovers head to Roman amphitheaters, outdoor theaters and traditional opera houses throughout Europe.
At the same time this summer's parallel program of concerts has attracted star conductors like Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle and William Christie as well as the rising British conductor Daniel Harding.
That was certainly the case before the emergence of star conductors in the late 19th century, although many podium giants of the 20th century also composed, to varying degrees.
