Roger Wright Interview

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Exactly, but they don't seem to want to listen to anyone who doesn't agree with exactly what they're doing.

[Sir Velo]

The Ring would have been enough - the Tristan, Parsifal and Tannhauser were over-egging the pudding if it meant no Verdi .

I would have swopped them for Otello , Traviata and Don Carlos any day .

I suspect Britten would have preferred Mozart.

The point is there aren't the singers or the conductors to do these works justice. I agree with RW (on this occasion): far better to have seven Wagner operas performed to an exceptional standard than, say, four Wagner and three mediocre Verdi performances. If you can say where these great Verdi singers and conductors are hiding then let us know. International opera singers and conductors have their schedules mapped out years ahead. It obviously wasn't possible to bring artists of a sufficient calibre together, whereas it was for Wagner, with an admittedly greater pool of Wagnerian talent to call upon.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If you can say where these great Verdi singers and conductors are hiding then let us know.

Leeds.

[french frank]

The point is there aren't the singers or the conductors to do these works justice.

I don't know that that, in general, is quite true - the ROH has had Domingo in Nabucco, Jonas Kaufmann in Don Carlo and Hampson in Boccanegra in 2013 which was arranged with a bit of forward planning.

[Barbirollians]

The point is there aren't the singers or the conductors to do these works justice. I agree with RW (on this occasion): far better to have seven Wagner operas performed to an exceptional standard than, say, four Wagner and three mediocre Verdi performances. If you can say where these great Verdi singers and conductors are hiding then let us know. International opera singers and conductors have their schedules mapped out years ahead. It obviously wasn't possible to bring artists of a sufficient calibre together, whereas it was for Wagner, with an admittedly greater pool of Wagnerian talent to call upon.

And how long has it been known the Verdi's bicentenary would be in 2013 ?

It is a specious argument of the first order by Wright .