Exactly twenty years after my first and only Ballo in maschera (at the Opéra de Montpellier), I’m once again taking on this enigmatic masterpiece by Verdi: opera and I have both changed considerably over the years,

My new year with opera starts on 6th January at the Teatro Real in Madrid for one of The three Queens concerts, with a programme that combines the finales of the so-called Tudor trilogy.

As your Chief Conductor, I have had the privilege in just over a year to get to know you better from an artistic and personal perspective. I am proud of what we are doing,

I am over the moon! Saturday evening was the first performance of I Puritani: it was such a huge success that I myself am still amazed by it … The joyful, the sad,