San Francisco Suddenly Finds Itself Searching For Two New Major Music Directors

Both the Opera and the Symphony are on the hunt for new music directors. “There are some telling differences between the two searches, which can be traced back to the different roles filled by a music director in a symphony orchestra or an opera company. But the collective upshot remains the same — sometime around three years from now, the musical profile on either side of Grove Street is going to look and sound very different.”