MILAN – 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 exchange Riccardo Chailly on the finish of subsequent yr, and can stay within the function till common supervisor and creative director Fortunato Ortombina’s time period ends in February 2030, La Scala mentioned in an announcement.
Chung, who can also be a famend pianist, has carried out most of the world’s most well-known orchestras, and is a towering cultural determine in South Korea.
La Scala famous his “shut and productive” relationship with La Scala’s orchestra, choir and philharmonic, and credited him with doing greater than every other any non-musical director to lift La Scala’s worldwide profile.
Since 1989, Chung has carried out 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 carried out 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 creative director of the Busan Opera and Live performance Corridor in South Korea.
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