I’ve just been offered a first-round audition for a Kapellmeister position here – the repertoire is Act 1 of La bohème, and the last movement of Brahms Symphony no 1. Well they say if you can conduct Bohème you can conduct anything in the opera repertoire. Not quite sure if that’s true, but yes it’s [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Opera North
January 18, 2010 – 3:29 pm
Having spent four seasons and tours working for Glyndebourne it is very interesting to be finally working for a different opera house! I went to Glyndebourne virtually straight from music college, so coming up to Leeds, working in an urban environment (as opposed to the hills and sheep at Glyndebourne), getting to know a different company and [...]