Evening Music

Must Have 2007: Gerard Mortier

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Impresario Gerard Mortier joins host Katherine Lanpher to discuss his vision of opera and share the music that he just can't live without. Part of WNYC's 2007 Must Have Festival.

Gerard Mortier

Incoming General Manager and Artistic Director, New York City Opera
The famed opera producer/impresario is currently finishing his tenure as director of the Paris National Opera. Mortier's first season at the City Opera, 2009-2010, will eschew Mozart and Puccini for 20th century works, including Philip Glass's "Einstein on the Beach."

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Gerard Mortier's Must Have Picks

Gerard Mortier's Must Have Picks

The Marriage of Figaro: finale	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	buy CD
Le plat pays	Jacques Brel	buy CD
Horn Trio: 4th mvmt.	György Ligeti	buy CD
Strange Fruit	Billie Holiday	buy CD
Ah parli a un core (Verdi)	Maria Callas	buy CD
Naima	John Coltrane	buy CD
Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus	Olivier Messiaen	buy CD
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