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.

On 26th October, I’m conducting the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hungarian National Choir (prepared by Csaba Somos) in this single performance of Aida. Alongside the excellent orchestra and choir,