Andrew Mellor: “The Royal Danish Opera has snagged one of the world’s most in-demand conductors. Who is she, and what has she got planned for Copenhagen?”

Read the full interview (now in English) at thenorthernsilence.net/game-set-mat...

“Let’s start viewing opera as an engine for empathy and awe, and decide to attend a performance with an explorer’s mindset. … What would happen if we approached opera on those terms, actively developing our curiosity about things we can’t fathom but long to know?”
- Yuval Sharon

Satie also took one of Debussy and Stravinsky.

Thought my first post here should be the most popular one on my late X account.

It’s Claude Debussy and Erik Satie hanging out by a Buddha. Photographed by Igor Stravinsky. What a house party.