Orchestre Métropolitain

Canadian-born conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin became the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director with the beginning of the 2018–19 season. He made his company debut in 2009 with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen and has since returned every season, conducting 100 performances of 13 operas, as well as numerous galas and Met Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall. During the 2021­–22 season, he returns to our podium to conduct the Met premieres of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, and the French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, as well as revivals of Puccini’s Tosca and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and concerts with the Met Orchestra, including a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11.

He has been music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012 and held the same position with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra—where he now serves as honorary conductor—between 2008 and 2018. Since 2000, he has served as artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. During the 2019–20 season, he was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist.

Maestro Nézet-Séguin has worked with many leading European ensembles and enjoys close collaborations with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. From 2008 to 2014, he was principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the BBC Proms, as well as the festivals of Edinburgh, Lucerne, Grafenegg, Lanaudière, Vail, and Saratoga. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2008 conducting a new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and returned in 2010 and 2011 for Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other operatic appearances have included performances at La Scala, Covent Garden, the Dutch National Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. In 2011, he began a cycle of seven Mozart operas for the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, which Deutsche Grammophon recorded live.