The couple has been wary of Wilson appearing at the Met for fear of poor optics, even though the programming of conductors in any given season is handled by music director, and fellow Canadian, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, not Gelb. That it has taken Wilson so long to make her debut conducting with the Met Opera Orchestra can perhaps be attributed to the fact that her husband, Peter Gelb, is the company’s general manager of 16 years. “This production inspires me because it’s so dramatic and powerful in every moment,” said Wilson. This Met Opera production, originally conceived by English opera director Graham Vick, has only been revived twice since it premiered in 1994. The opera was ill-received by the Communist Party, which issued its infamous editorial titled “Muddle Instead of Music,” effectively banning the work and leaving its composer living in terror for months afterwards.Įven after the opera resurfaced in the second half of the 20th century, it was rarely performed. Shostakovich’s expressionistic opera, which premiered in 1934 and is based on the novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by Nikolai Leskov, follows a 19th-century woman in a small Russian town who is driven to murder after falling in love with one of her husband’s workers. “I feel charged by it and I’m so delighted to be making this opera come alive with one of the greatest opera companies in the world.” There’s so much humanity, so much contrast and every aspect of life is in it,” she said in a recent interview with the Star. “I feel empowered by Dmitri Shostakovich’s music. It’s particularly fitting, Wilson said, that she should making her Met debut with this opera, one of her favourites in the classical repertoire. The flutist-turned-conductor makes her long-awaited, and perhaps some will say incredibly overdue, Metropolitan Opera conducting debut Thursday in the company’s revival of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” running from Sept. From the orchestra pits of the Royal Opera House and the Paris Opera, to the podiums of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the resumé of acclaimed Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson spans continents and musical genres.īut there was a notable entry missing from Wilson’s curriculum vitae for decades - up until this week.
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