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Antonio Pappano

“We’re talking about plans A, B and C, it changes every week”

Big InterviewsMay 20, 2020Music director

Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House in London, has been at the top of the opera profession for almost two decades. The ‘singer’s conductor’ talks to George Hall about how Daniel Barenboim brought him to Bayreuth, his disastrous debut at Covent Garden and how the company is responding to the coronavirus crisis

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