It has been a while since my last blog. The main reason is that all my attention has been going into setting up my new fil ...

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We filmed the performance on Saturday for the web-stream which is available from 6:30pm on November 3rd on the BBC Radio 3 ...

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The truth must be faced: my production of Carmen has infuriated many of the established opera critics. There have been som ...

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Sally writing a blog

The moment is upon us. All that we have worked for behind closed doors (glimpsed, from time to time, by cameras for the we ...

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It’s Monday morning. It rained heavily in the night and I woke to its comforting sound on the roof, another kind of musi ...

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The work in the studio hits the stage and I’m running. I try to answer constant questions from all members of the team ...

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Yesterday I went to a sitzprobe. It was my first experience of hearing the singers and orchestra together, and it was a s ...

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