Friday, September 13, 2019

One of These Things is Not Like the Others.




San Francisco Opera: The music director announces his departure in May, 2016. More than three years later, as far as we know, the company is still looking.
San Francisco Symphony: The music director announces his departure in October, 2017. Fourteen months later, with eighteen months left on the outgoing MD's contract, the new music director is announced.
Lyric Opera of Chicago: The music director's retirement and his successor are announced the same day.

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