22nd June 2015 10:45 clock

Berlin Philharmonic: Kirill Petrenko is the successor of Simon Rattle be

Kirill Petrenko | are © Sven Hoppe / dpa

The music director of the Bavarian State Opera, Kirill Petrenko is, according to information from the broadcasting Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) new chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic , The Philharmonic has scheduled a press conference for the early afternoon, they wanted to comment on the report but has not rbb.

The orchestra chose the 43-year-old Petrenko as successor to Sir Simon Rattle, reported the rbb. The 60-year-old leaves 2018, the world-renowned music store on Berlin’s Kulturforum.

Born in Omsk in 1972 Petrenko was in Berlin from 2002 to 2007 music director of the Komische Oper in Berlin. Under his leadership it was in 2014 elected to the Opera House of the Year. He was a frequent and welcome guest especially with the Berlin Philharmonic.

The musician regarded as rather cautious in the public made only talked about the beginning of June, when he on the “unprofessional and undignified” handling of the Bayreuth Festival with her artistic festival director Eva Wagner-Pasquier and the performer Lance Ryan “deeply irritated” showed.

Petrenko will conduct this summer for the last time Frank Castorf Bayreuth Ring .

Your conductors determine the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic in a secret ballot itself. An eleven and a half hours continuous ballot in May had remained without result.