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.

It’s always a joy to be back at La Fenice and this time it’s an even greater pleasure, since I’ll be conducting Verdi’s first “Venetian” opera in a new production with an excellent cast.

Just a few months into my role as chief conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, I am back conducting them in two concerts with rather unusual programmes. On 8 February,

“On 27th January, Holocaust Memorial Day, I’m conducting a symphonic concert at the Teatro Regio di Torino. While remembrance of what happened is a universally shared legacy that is marked every year on this memorial day,