Chicago’s former Opera Theater music director Lidiya Yankovskaya is fed up with the US and moving her family to London.
She says: “I want to be sure that my children can grow up feeling like they can always express themselves freely. I want my children to live in a society that really takes care of its people. I want my children to live in a world that really values things like the arts, that really values things like education,” she told WBEZ on a recent Zoom call from Sydney, where she has been leading Georges Bizet’s classic “Carmen” at the Sydney Opera House. “In London in particular, there is such a culture of valuing intellectualism, of valuing the arts and artistic pursuits for their own sake.”
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "In search of Louis Spohr: WDR Chamber Players record six discs of Spohr's string chamber music for Pentatone")
