Music Director Fabio Luisi leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
In Friday’s (2/28) Dallas Morning News, Sarah Hepola writes, “A conductor is a wizard of sound, summoning harmony and drama from notes on a page. As the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s music director for the past five years, the 66-year-old Fabio Luisi has led the orchestra through world premieres and epic sonic journeys, like the four-part Ring Cycle, a series of Germanic operas by Richard Wagner so long and arduous that few, if any, orchestras in the 21st century have dared it in its entirety. Luisi is also a wizard of smell. He is a perfumer who makes his own line of bespoke scents in a laboratory in Zurich … The fate of a maestro like Luisi, who won a 2013 Grammy for leading New York’s Metropolitan Opera in the last two operas of the Ring Cycle, is to be forever in demand. He’s the principal conductor of orchestras in Tokyo and Denmark in addition to Dallas, where about 10-12 weeks a year … he stays near the DSO’s base at the Meyerson Symphony Center…. Luisi conducts without a baton, his body lifting and lilting as he coaxes sounds from the orchestra that, as concertmaster Alexander Kerr told me, are ‘warmer, less angular’ than those of previous iterations of the DSO.”
