We’ve just reached the end of the 2023/2024 season, which I’ve had the privilege of concluding at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, with Maria Stuarda (at the Naples opera house, I’m carrying forward this ‘Tudor Queens’ project,

In Naples, “another” of Donizetti’s home cities, I’m working on a project which is very special in terms of quality, continuity and significance. It began in 2022 with Le tre regine,

On 2nd June I was appointed Cavaliere dell’Ordine “al Merito della Repubblica Italiana”, by decree of the President of the Italian Republic, for outstanding service to the nation in the field of art.

In the centenary year of Puccini’s death, being celebrated at opera houses worldwide, I share the pride of this choice by the Teatro Regio, Turin, to be one of the few theatres (and the only one in Italy) to stage his first opera,