Exactly ten years after my first Capuleti e Montecchi at the Liceu in Barcelona, in a widely debated production with live satellite cinema broadcasts, I’m engaging again with this masterpiece by Bellini,

It’s extremely interesting to be passing, in just a few days, from the noble interior world of the fourteen-year-old Mozart whose Mitridate, re di Ponto I’m conducting for the first time,

It’s exactly three years since my last Aida, in a concert performance: an intense experience that brings the conductor face to face with the score which, since it is Verdi, is obviously perfect. 

In the enchanted environment of Olavinlinna castle, suspended in time, on the banks of lake Saimaa, I have the honour of closing the Savonlinna Opera Festival conducting a concert performance of Norma.