Meyer finds new home in Lausanne
Dominique Meyer, director of La Scala, is taking over the management of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne with immediate effect. He succeeds Antony Ernst, who is relinquishing the post for personal reasons.
Meyer, 68, has led the Teatro alla Scala since May 2020 and his term of office expires at the end of February 2025. The current Italian government has set an age limit of 70 for the management of opera houses and other cultural institutions and aims to only allow Italians to hold these management positions.
Meyer was already Director of the Lausanne Opera House from 1994 to 1999 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Meyer will be joined in the fall by Julie Mestre, who has been General Director of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie since 2020. The French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been the orchestra's Artistic Director since 2021.
