Andrea Chénier; Barber of Seville review – brio and ballistic B-flats
When I interviewed Antonio Pappano in Rome in 2011, he jokingly admitted that he was a cultural traitor. “I did productions of Wagner, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Britten and Birtwistle at Covent Garden,” he said, “but maybe I didn’t do as many Italian classics as they expected me to.” During his second decade as music director of… Read More »