OperaWire‘s Francisco Salazar interviews Constantine Orbelian on the New York City Opera, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and upcoming recordings:
“Now under the leadership of Orbelian, a conductor with years of experience leading many of the greatest stars in the world, from Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Renee Fleming, to Asmik Grigorian, Kristine Opolais, and Stephen Costello, there is a new vision for the company to thrive in New York.
OperaWire spoke to the conductor about his plan and his hopes for the future of the New York City Opera.
OperaWire: You just became the Executive Director of the New York City Opera. Tell me about the plans for the company.
Constantine Orbelian: I’m the Executive Director and the music director, and principal conductor.
In June, we did these traditional performances at Bryant Park and I am happy to keep it going, even though I’m in the midst of resurrecting the board, and I found some fabulous, new board members.
You can imagine with this president, Donald Trump, and all the stuff going on, people are donating money less and less because they don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. But in any case, I’m doing that as much as I can, and all my friends performed for those concerts.
After those June concerts, we are doing a semi-staged “Carmen” in September. So that’s going to be fun. And I’m looking forward to doing some incredible projects in the near future.… ”