The Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber is taking over this week’s Cosi fan tutti in Hamburg, a full year before he starts work as Generalmusikdirektor.
The Bremen kapellmeister William Kelley (pictured) will conduct the remaining performances. He’s from North Carolina and fast becoming a Hamburg favourite.
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