🎵 Classical music's rising Latin American stars
Lina González-Granados conducting in New York in 2021. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Latin American conductors of classical music, along with opera singers, are making it big in an industry that has been mostly white and European since its beginnings.Colombian Lina González-Granados was recently named the resident conductor for the Los Angeles Opera, becoming the first Latina to get a major conducting post in one of the biggest U.S. opera companies.
She will make her LA debut in September. First, she’ll conduct “The Barber of Seville” at the Dallas Opera in a guest stint this weekend. Bass-baritone Valeriano Lanchas will join her as Dr. Bartolo, which will be “the first time two Latinos make a joint debut in a big U.S. opera house,” González-Granados told Axios Latino.: On average in the past decade, around 10% of musicians and 20% of conductors in U.S. orchestras were non-white, according to a League of American Orchestras
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