The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and I are about to set off on a tour which fills us with pride, in terms of destination (taking in eight important U.K. cities, including London, over a ten-day stay) and in terms of the programmes.

I am preparing to conduct Werther for the first time, the opera in four acts by librettists Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, set to music by Jules Massenet after a difficult creation process followed by an equally complicated history of first performances.

On 28th October 1837, Roberto Devereux, an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. This work, based on Jacques-François Ancelot’s tragedy Elisabeth d’Angleterre,

The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and I are always delighted to be guests at the prestigious Budapest Zeneakadémia and now we are about to return there. On 19th October, I’m conducting an all-Brahms concert which I know will be lyrical and passionate thanks to the sound of our orchestra and the skills of pianist Simon Trpčeski.