WNO taps Zambello

Francesco Zambello, the opera and musical-theater stage director who last year became artistic director of the Glimmerglass opera festival in upstate New York, has been named artistic advisor of the Washington National Opera.

As Plácido Domingo relinquishes artistic direction of the company after 15 years and WNO’s administration goes under the wing of the Kennedy Center, Zambello’s role will be “open-ended, exploratory,” she tells The Washington Post’s Anne Midgette:

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