Kent Nagano Portrait - Seeking New Shores

Introducing one of the world’s most successful conductors: Kent Nagano’s meteoric rise to fame took him via Lyon, Manchester and Los Angeles to Berlin, where for six years he directed the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. In autumn 2006 Nagano took up two new posts: as chief conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and General Music Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper. The film shows Kent Nagano in rehearsal with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and follows him to California, Paris and Munich. Interviews with Plácido Domingo, Gérard Mortier, Lang Lang, Achim Freyer and others provide a fascinating insight into this outstanding conductor’s personality and the various stages in his career.