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Contents:
- THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
- THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
“We n be exampl, a way, to spire young micians who fear that this is gog to be a problem their profsn and reer advancement, ” Nézet-Ségu said, speakg to The New York Tim about beg an openly gay nductor. He had a relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre, who he did eventually marry, but he was openly gay. Montealegre reunted the fact The Bernste Letters, statg, “you are a homosexual and may never change – you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern what n you do?
And Arthur Lrents, who llaborated wh Bernste on Wt Si Story, clarified that Bernste was “a gay man who got married” who “wasn't nflicted about at all.
THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
He was jt gay.
Michael Tilson Thomas is the founr and artistic director of the New World Symphony, mic director lreate of San Francis Symphony Orchtra, and nductor lreate of London Symphony Orchtra, Classic FM’s Orchtra the Cy of eleven-time Grammy wner is openly gay, and married to orchtral manager Joshua Mark Robison sce 2014. He led top orchtras, cludg Mneapolis Symphony Orchtra and the New York never married, and was known to be homosexual, wh mours that he had a relatnship wh Leonard Bernste (see above).
He was married to shippg heirs, Elae Phipps, but he was known to be gay and is thought to have had a relatnship wh poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who was the partner of fellow poser Samuel Barber. Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay.