On Friday 1st August I’ll be opening the prestigious Cap Rocat Festival in Mallora. In just a few years, the festival has established itself as a vibrant platform for chamber, symphonic and operatic music engaging some of the most renowned and beloved artists in the world.

Roberto Devereux, composed in Naples “in the time of cholera” in 1837, intensifies and sums up the trilogy that Donizetti devoted to the Tudor queens (prior to it came Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda),

Returning to conduct the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini is always a great pleasure. This time, it’s an even greater satisfaction because I’m inaugurating the fourth edition of the Toscanini Festival, the tribute which the Foundation that bears the name of the legendary conductor has organized each summer since 2022 in Parma and some of the other most beautiful historical and artistic settings in the province.

Un ballo in maschera is an opera that I especially love. I have worked on it twice, both times outside Italy, and with a twenty-year gap in between. This production has enriched my Verdi catalogue: despite my reputation as a “Donizetti” conductor,