The Great Conductor Switch!

[shoefiend]

Tonight was a very exciting performance of Faust. At intermission, as some of us were hanging out in the performer's lounge, Sandy Gavinchuk came to annnounce that Yannick Nezet-Seguin was going to leave the performance to go conduct the TSO... Valery Gergiev's plane was delayed so much that even with the TSO having held the start of their

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[starfishchick]

How fascinating!! (And anyone who can shave that much time off an opera is a good guy in my book - how'd he do THAT?)

Did they announce it to the audience, do you know?

[shoefiend]

I'm sure they must have announced it to the audience, I just didn't hear it over the monitors....