In classical music and opera, even New York, the city that gave rise to the modern gay rights movement with the Stonewall riots 50 years ago this June, has been dominated since then by two conductors: Leonard Bernstein and James Levine, who both kept sexual relationships with men hidden. While culture - particularly high culture - is indelibly associated with gay tastemakers, audiences and creators, it’s a sign of how outmoded our conception of authority is that remarkably few major performing arts leaders have been openly gay. NEW YORK - Yannick Nezet-Seguin will succeed James Levine as music director of the Metropolitan Opera but will not take over until the 2020-21 season. But it was an extraordinary conversation to be having with the music director of the nation’s largest performing arts institution. It’s not unusual to share meet-cute stories over cheap cocktails at Julius’, one of the oldest and coziest gay bars in the city. Nézet-Séguin was in a four-year relationship - with a woman.īut did Mr. Tourville, a violist, was dating, he admitted with a laugh, “many people at the same time.” Mr. Yannick Nzet-Sguin, (born March 6, 1975, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Canadian conductor and pianist who was music director of the As a young man, Nzet-Sguin. Tourville, “she and you were looking, and I said, ‘I’m going to be your roommate.’” “You and your best friend,” he said, turning to Mr.
Nézet-Séguin said recently at Julius’, the West Village gay bar. “I felt I needed to emancipate, to get out of my parents’ place, as one does at 20,” Mr. It wasn’t love at first sight when Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, and his partner, Pierre Tourville, met as students at the Montreal Conservatory almost 25 years ago.
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