My first instinct as a conductor is that I want to help. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. Then, after a short break, he was able to meet with the Vienna Philharmonic for just 75 minutes to prepare Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and Second Symphony, which together run longer than 90 minutes.ĭuring a phone call while en route to New York on Saturday, Nézet-Séguin reflected on that much-needed hiatus, and how he got through his recent grind. 25, he was at the Met to lead the final dress rehearsal for “Don Carlos” - which, with intermissions, runs nearly five hours. “I said the only condition is, I need to tell the orchestra, ‘You won’t be able to rehearse with me a lot, because it’s just not possible,’” Nézet-Séguin recalled in a recent interview. Putin of Russia - Nézet-Séguin got a call asking if he could step in. But that Thursday - as the Vienna Philharmonic dropped Valery Gergiev from its three-day stint at Carnegie over his ties to President Vladimir V. Nothing out of the ordinary for him, as the music director of both institutions. 21, he conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the conclusion of its Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall, and was planning, in the days ahead, to lead the opening of a new production of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” at the Metropolitan Opera, followed soon after by a revival of Puccini’s “Tosca.” However busy your past two weeks were, Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s were probably busier.
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