My new year with opera starts on 6th January at the Teatro Real in Madrid for one of The three Queens concerts, with a programme that combines the finales of the so-called Tudor trilogy.

As your Chief Conductor, I have had the privilege in just over a year to get to know you better from an artistic and personal perspective. I am proud of what we are doing,

I am over the moon! Saturday evening was the first performance of I Puritani: it was such a huge success that I myself am still amazed by it … The joyful, the sad,

I have read the writings of Sassy, of Calmet, The Loves of the Angels by Lord Byron, the tragedy ‘The Flood’, by Father Ringhini and, had I found it, would also have read the poem on the same subject by Bernardino Baldi.