Canadian-born conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin became the Metropolitan Opera’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director with the beginning of the 2018–19 season. He made his company debut in 2009 with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen and has since returned every season, leading more than 200 performances of 24 operas, as well as numerous galas and concerts with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Europe and Asia. During the 2024–25 season, he returns to the podium to conduct the Met premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, new productions of Verdi’s Aida and Strauss’s Salome, revivals of Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten and Puccini’s La Bohème, and concerts with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In August 2024, the Met and Nézet-Séguin announced the extension of his tenure as Music Director through the 2029–30 season.
Nézet-Séguin has been music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012 and held the same position with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra—where he now serves as honorary conductor—between 2008 and 2018. Since 2000, he has served as artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. From 2008 to 2014, he was principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and during the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons, he was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist.
He enjoys close collaborations with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and has led performances at La Scala, Covent Garden, Dutch National Opera, the Vienna State Opera, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and the festivals of Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Grafenegg, Lanaudière, Vail, and Saratoga. His extensive recording catalog includes Florencia en el Amazonas, Kevin Puts’s The Hours, Terence Blanchard’s Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, A Concert for Ukraine, Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11, and Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice with the Met; his first solo piano album, Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions; Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene with soprano Renée Fleming; and multiple albums with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received four Grammy Awards (of 13 nominations), winning most recently for conducting the Met’s recording of Champion.
