On April 9 Julian Kuerti makes his New York and New York City Opera debut leading Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are. The Canadian conductor recently completed his three-year post as Assistant Conductor to James Levine at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This season he has made significant debuts with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle, New Jersey, Vancouver, Rochester, Toledo and Quebec Symphonies, and he will conduct the Atlanta Symphony for the first time later this month.
Kuerti took a break from rehearsal at New York City Opera to talk with 21C Media Group’s Wende Persons about the opera Where the Wild Things Are, which is based on the children’s book by writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak.