02 Apr 2005

Runnicles at Carnegie Hall

Donald Runnicles, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Opera, has been earning excellent reviews for his conducting of Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier” at the Metropolitan Opera, a run that ends with a matinee performance today. But New Yorkers also know of him as the principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Wearing that hat he appeared at Carnegie Hall for a program on Thursday night titled, rather too cutely, “Postcard From Prague.”


Donald Runnicles (Photo: San Francisco Opera / Ken Friedman)

A Scot's Travel Guide to Prague

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 2 Apr 05]

Donald Runnicles, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Opera, has been earning excellent reviews for his conducting of Strauss's "Rosenkavalier" at the Metropolitan Opera, a run that ends with a matinee performance today. But New Yorkers also know of him as the principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Wearing that hat he appeared at Carnegie Hall for a program on Thursday night titled, rather too cutely, "Postcard From Prague."

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