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Vladimir Jurowski: I’ll do four more years and that’s it

Vladimir Jurowski: I’ll do four more years and that’s it

The general music director of Bavarian State Opera has said he’s grateful for yesterday’s two-year contract extension, but he won’t stay on in any circumstances beyond 2028.

Jurowski, 52, told BR: ‘I think seven years is actually a good number. My two predecessors, Kirill Petrenko and Kent Nagano, were GMD at the Bavarian State Opera for exactly seven years. And when I took up the job in 2021, I actually had no other number in mind than that. At the time, they wanted to sign a ten-year contract and I said: For God’s sake, let’s do four or five years and see how it goes. But I’m really convinced that seven or eight years is an ideal time so that there is no stagnation, but that you can still reap the fruits of your labor yourself. I don’t want to become a “piece of furniture” at the Bavarian State Opera. I’m still relatively young at 52 and I have other plans in life.’

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