In the enchanted environment of Olavinlinna castle, suspended in time, on the banks of lake Saimaa, I have the honour of closing the Savonlinna Opera Festival conducting a concert performance of Norma.

My schedules, filled with evenings on the podium and in the orchestra pit, to the delight of a music enthusiast like me, are often unpredictable. So, my presence here at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London has coincided with the twenty-fifth anniversary of a career that began conducting Rigoletto at the Teatro Regio,

The programme I’m about to conduct (23 May 2026) at the Teatro San Carlo is ‘beautiful’ because the Hebrides overture and the Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E minor are beautiful (in the sense too of captivating),

Campogrande is internationally recognised and appreciated for the coherent direction his composition has taken, and for the recognisable aesthetics that shy away neither from lyricism nor from legibility and appeal. He’s been composing “not only”