In a one-night-only semi-staged performance, conductor Simone Young will bring Richard Strauss’s wistful Capriccio to life.
There’s a huge amount of irony and introspection about what makes a great composer, a great poet, a great opera, and he pricks the balloon of pretension, she says.“He’s basically just holding up a mirror to the society he was at home in, and it often comes quite close to what we’re familiar with.
You play it a lot and you draw on it, you learn from one opera and it becomes part of your vocabulary for the next one. “It’s like the difference between being a 1500-metre freestyler and a 50-metre freestyler. I’m a long-distance opera conductor.” In fact, ANAM was the lure. She has had a long relationship with the academy, regularly doing concerts, workshops and public conversations, and she is also a long-standing friend of VO’s Richard Mills.
“So rehearsals become a little more of a workshop. I find that quite enjoyable, very rewarding in its own way. Every now and then, we crusty old professionals need to get a taste of the enthusiasm and optimism of youth.”
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