Acclaimed conductor Roger Norrington dead at 91

Roger Norrington, a conductor acclaimed for historically informed performances during more than a half-century leading orchestras in Europe and the United States, has died. He was 91.

Norrington died Friday at his home, his son Tom said Saturday. Norrington lived outside Exeter, England.

Norrington conducted both period-instruments and modern orchestras, asking both types to play without vibrato and usually at faster tempi than modern practice.

Norrington died Friday at his home, his son Tom said Saturday. ullstein bild via Getty Images

“He was an extraordinary dramatist. He made things happen emotionally,” Myron Lutzke, an Orchestra of St. Luke’s cellist who helped persuade Norrington to become music director, said Saturday. “He had his detractors, certainly, and some of them were some of my best friends. But

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