I consider it to be an excellent artistic choice (and an honour for me), to inaugurate the 2025 Donizetti Opera with Caterina Cornaro, at last in the critical edition by Eleonora Di Cintio for Casa Ricordi,

After Armida with Renée Fleming in 2011 and Lucia di Lammermoor with stage direction by Simon Stone in 2022, I’ll be conducting La Sonnambula,

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),