Our session for Radio 3’s Lebrecht Interview with MTT lasted almost two hours and much of the sidebar stuff ended up in BBC bins. However, not to be forgotten is Michael’s pledge to return to […]
ROH Youth Opera in Jonathan Ainscough & Jonathan Briggin’s The Sapling in July 2023 When I chatted to conductor Nicholas Chalmers in 2019 [see my interview], one of the topics that popped up was his […]
We understand that Opera Australia is about to appoint a music director. Patrons have been told in confidence that the chosen one is Andrea Battistoni, a rising Italian conductor. So far, so promising. But Battisoni, […]