in 2021, he bought his youthful star power to the 350 year old paris national opera as its music director. gustavo has been very well received here because the energy that he transmits in the pit and on the podium to his fellow musicians also spills over into the audience, and what we have been seeing for the performance of tosca when he shows up in the pit, he already gets an ovation before he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher.
applause. in 2021, he bought his youthful star power to the 350 year old paris national opera as its music director. gustavo has been very well received here because the energy that he transmits in the pit and on the podium to his fellow musicians also spills over into the audience, and what we have been seeing for the performance of tosca when he shows up in the pit, he already gets an ovation before he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher.
he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher. i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa, he still plays with his band and all of that. but then there was a moment when, you know, i went to a symphonic concert and i got in love, you know, with a dimension of that world.
over into the audience, musicians also spills over into the audience, and what we have been seeing for the performance of tosca when he shows up in the pit, he already gets an ovation before he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher. i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa,