I’m delighted to announce my appointment as Music Director for Portland Opera. I’m looking forward to continuing this collab with the wonderful orchestra, chorus, guest artists, and colleagues as we continue to shepherd the scintillating world of opera into the 21st century.
The press release below reports the rare capitulation of a professional symphony orchestra to the political bias of a solo pianist. It would be helpful if the MSO were to amplify the ‘safety concerns’ that […]
The music director in Freiburg am Breisgau, André de Ridder, was today named music director of English National Opera. He starts in autumn 2027, by which time there may not be much left of the […]
The board of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras today terminated its relationship with the conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has been suspended since a violent incident 11 months ago. The termination is abrupt and […]