To be conducting the Festival Verdi, which has been held at the Teatro Regio di Parma for twenty-two years to coincide with the birthday of Italy’s most emblematic composer, is in itself an honour.

To be back at my beloved Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and, what is more, with Il barbiere di Siviglia is pure delight.

Conducting what is perhaps the best-loved opera buffa in the repertoire is always a challenge.

I am absolutely delighted to be back at the Metropolitan Opera to conduct an opera which is very dear to my heart: first of all because it is one of the masterpieces by our dear Donizetti;

On 23rd March I was nominated Chief Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir and will up the post for the 2022/23 season.
This partnership is the result of a special relationship that I have with the orchestra,