A rose named Maestro Yannick!
It was in Baden-Baden, in the famous Rosengarten (Roses Garden), that a rose was named MAESTRO YANNICK today. This superb red rose celebrates Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has returned to this city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, every summer for many years to conduct concerts at the Festspielhaus. After personally pouring a carafe of water over the rose plant, Yannick said: "I've always loved roses since I was a child, and especially those in the Baden-Baden Rosengarten, which I've visited several times. For me, the rose is the symbol of symphonic music, the many petals arranged in concentric circles forming a harmonious whole, symbolizing an orchestra!"
At the Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Yannick has conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (CEO) several times in recordings of Mozart operas and the complete works of Brahms, Beethoven and Schuman; he has also invited successively the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Rotterdams Philharmonish Orkest as part of his La Capitale d’été festival; this summer, it is the turn of the Orchestre Métropolitain to offer two concerts here in Baden Baden, thus completing a very successful European tour. Yannick is well known to German music lovers, and Europeans in general, who adore concerts at the Baden Baden Festspielhaus. Bravo Maestro Yannick!