Openly gay performg arts lears are still rare. So was a breath of h air to chat about g out and Cele Dn wh Yannick Nézet-Ségu and his partner.
Contents:
- THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
- FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
- TAG: GAY NDUCTORS
- BLACK GAY NDUCTOR HEADS TO ATLANTA SYMPHONY
- THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
- WOMEN, GAYS, AND CLASSIL MIC
THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
* gay conductors *
“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.
FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
Posts about gay nductors wrten by Sttered Thoughts * gay conductors *
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.
TAG: GAY NDUCTORS
He was jt gay.
BLACK GAY NDUCTOR HEADS TO ATLANTA SYMPHONY
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.
THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay. As well as beg a leadg poser, sufagist Dame Ethel Smyth nducted prolifilly, cludg takg to the podium to premiere her own works, and nductg the Metropolan Police Band at the unveilg of the statue to Emmele Pankhurst London was gay, and at the age of 71 she met and was very taken wh Virgia Woolf.
WOMEN, GAYS, AND CLASSIL MIC
Moon for The New York TimOpenly gay performg arts lears are still rare. Yannick Nézet-Ségu, the new mic director of the Metropolan Opera, left, and his partner, the vlist Pierre Tourville, at the gay bar Juli’ Moon for The New York TimJan.
Nézet-Ségu said recently at Juli’, the Wt Village gay bar. ” Moon for The New York TimIt’s not unual to share meet-cute stori over cheap cktails at Juli’, one of the olst and zit gay bars the cy.
But was an extraordary nversatn to be havg wh the mic director of the natn’s largt performg arts culture — particularly high culture — is libly associated wh gay tastemakers, dienc and creators, ’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay.