I am about to embark on a month devoted entirely to symphonic music in two countries that I love very much, Spain and Hungary. I’m starting in the latter where, on 5th March,

Although I have already conducted Cavalleria rusticana, here at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino I’m engaging for the first time with Pagliacci, and consequently with the pairing that has combined these two operas ever since they were performed together at the Metropolitan Theater,

Italian Perspectives, out today on Pentatone, is the album I recorded with the Bamberger Symphoniker at the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal in Bamberg between June 2022 and May 2023. The programme includes Martucci’s Symphony No.

In between performances of Nabucco at the Teatro di San Carlo in January and rehearsals for Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro del Maggio at the beginning of February,