“Everyone should know how it feels to sing in a choir,” says Sir Antonio Pappano, who conducted at the King’s coronation, and has spent the past 22 years as music director of the Royal Opera ...

For all its passing British sea shanties and folksongs, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony does Walt Whitman’s determinedly global-oriented poetry full justice. That “pennant universal” was reflected in ...

Antonio Pappano’s 22-year tenure as music director of the Royal Opera has been so outstandingly successful, so important for operatic life in this country, and so widely praised by all involved ...

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Sir Antonio Pappano explores the great roles and the greatest singers of the last 100 years through the prism of the main classical voice types - soprano, tenor, mezzo-soprano, baritone and bass.

It is more than two years since the Royal Opera announced the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as its next music director, succeeding Antonio Pappano after his record-breaking 22 years in the post.

Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have been searingly congruent. Before he took up his post as Chief Conductor, ...

Rich pickings, in other words. The triumph of the evening is undoubtedly Antonio Pappano’s conducting of the orchestra of Accademia di Santa Cecilia. He brings to the well-stuffed score terrific ...

Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast of singers in favourite arias, duets and choruses from operas by Rossini and Puccini, along with the thrilling finale of Bizet’s Carmen. Show more Antonio ...

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Wagner's Ring cycle from the Royal Opera House, recorded and first broadcast in 2018. A stellar cast led by John Lundgren as Wotan is conducted by Antonio Pappano.