Gustavo Dudamel announced this thursday resignation from music director Opera related to Paris At the end of the current 2022/23 season, a decision he has justified with his desire. “To spend more time with my family.”
“It was a privilege to share such beautiful moments” The Venezuelan conductor said in a statement from the Paris Opera that he has been with the institution’s artists in the last two seasons.
“I have no other project other than being by my side. I would like to thank them for their support in my goal of growing and improving myself.”
The general manager of the institution, Alexander Neef, expressed his “deep gratitude” He recognized Dudamel for his work and described him as a “great musician” whose “passion and tremendous talent have brought so much to the institution”.
after the end of the season
Neef assured him it “totally” respects Dudamel’s decision, who will officially leave the agency after the end of the current season.It ends at the end of June.
Paris Opera has claimed that it will elaborate later on who will replace Dudamel as the head of the orchestra in the concerts, operas and ballets it plans to conduct in the 2023/24 season, which will start next September.
The Venezuelan classical music star was presented as director of the Paris institution in April 2021. transform and make it more modern and inclusiveand started in August of the same year, so by the end of his journey he will have spent two seasons at the helm.