Nézet-Séguin will be out of action for 4 weeks

NEW YORK (AP) – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, musical director of the Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra, will take a four-week sabbatical from commanding after a busy fall and before a challenging second half of the season. The Met newspaper reported on Monday that the 46-year-old had withdrawn from Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)” competition slated for January 8-28 and Jan. April 2-16. He has led the Met premieres of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” and Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” and will direct the Met’s first show of “Don Carlos” Verdi and the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ The Hours.