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| | Lyall Robert | | direttore d'orchestra |  
| Robert Lyall has been recently appointed General Director of the New Orleans Opera, a post he has been holding also at Opera Grand Rapids since 1990. In addition, he is Principal Guest Conductor at the Istanbul State Opera. He also served as General Director of Knoxville Opera Company from 1982 to 1999 and as Artistic Director of the Mississippi Opera from 1995 to 1999. |
| He performs widely in the United States, Mexico and Europe. In the 1997-98 season he made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the New England Symphony in an all Beethoven concert. His operatic assignments have taken him to the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Seattle Opera and on a tour of the Netherlands with the Bulgarian State Opera. |
| Robert Lyall's wide repertoire includes powerful and insightful interpretations of Verdi masterpieces (Aida, Otello, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore), Mozart classic (Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte), Puccini tragedies (La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca), French operas (Carmen, Faust, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Massenet's Cendrillon), opera's most famous double-bill (Cavalleria rusticana and I pagliacci), popular comedies (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Fledermaus) and Donizett'?s bel canto tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor. |
| Critics have agreed with the audiences and have praised his "discerning casting and solid musical direction" (The Grand Rapids Press). Critic Jeff Kaczmarczyk praised a recent performance by writing that "[C]onductors rarely get the credit they deserve, yet Lyall had an impressive night at the podium [he] held the performance together remarkably well and made some lovely music, too." |
| In addition to the standard operas, he is noted for his strong interest in the 20th century American repertoire. In 1986 he conducted Floyd?s Susannah at the Knoxville Opera Company. The musical drama, which is set in East Tennessee, was regionally televised on PBS stations in a performance that the composer himself pronounced as definitive. In 1989 Lyall conducted the world premiere of Kenton Coe's Rachel, an opera commissioned by Knoxville Opera Company. He also conducted the work on the company's tour to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville. For that production, he was awarded Knoxville Arts Council's Special Programs Award. |
| Earlier in his career, Robert Lyall was Music Director and Artistic Director of both the Oak Ridge (Tennessee) Symphony and the Victoria (Texas) Symphony Orchestra. He has guest conducted throughout the United States and Mexico at the Guadalajara Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Prince George Philharmonic, Southeast Kansas Philharmonic, and the Guanajuato Symphony, which he conducted on tour throughout Mexico. |
| He has conducted major ballet productions for companies in Dallas, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Chattanooga and Oak Ridge. |
| Robert Lyall is a past winner of the American Symphony Orchestra League's national auditions. He received an award from National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities to study the performance practice of Beethoven. Lyall is also a recipient of the Knoxville Arts Council's Individual Artistic Merit Award. He studies with Kyril Kondrashin, famed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic. |
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