Chicago’s Lyric Opera has appointed John Mangum of the Houston Symphony to be its next general director.
In an interview to be published next Tuesday, he tells Janos Gereben of San Francisco Classical Voice:
‘I’ve only had orchestra positions so far. But I was a super at San Francisco Opera in “Elektra” in 1991, when I was a senior in high school! And I did some freelance work for LA Opera while I was at UCLA. It was their marketing director who connected me with the LA Phil, for my first job.’
Hmm.
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