Milan is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the death of Alessandro Manzoni (22 May 1873-2023) with an elaborate cultural and artistic programme taking place in its imposing Duomo. The“Maggio Manzoniano”, has already started,

The committee of the 42nd edition of the “Franco Abbiati” Music Critics’ award has selected “La Favorite”, which inaugurated the 2022 Donizetti Opera festival, as “Best show of the year”. 

I’m grateful to my beloved ABAO Bilbao Opera (and, as always, to my beloved Spain) for this award: best conductor in the first edition of Tutto Verdi International Awards, organised by the Teatro di Bilbao to give international standing to this unique project created in 2006 to highlight the life and work of Giuseppe Verdi.

There are two concerts scheduled for this spring with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: on 17 April in the prestigious Grand Hall at the Liszt Academy and on 25 April at the Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.