Archive for December 23rd, 2014

POLITICAL WALLS, CULTURAL EMISSARIES

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

By James Conlon Since arriving in New York in mid-October to rehearse Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Metropolitan Opera, and until finishing my last concert with RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Torino) on Friday night, I have not conducted a note of music that is not Russian.  I flew to Europe immediately after the last […]

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