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The Seckerson Tapes: Edward Gardner Interview
The Seckerson Tapes: Edward Gardner Interview
The English National Opera's whizz-kid chief conductor speaks
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Edward Gardner is no longer English National Opera's best kept secret. The former choral scholar and repetiteur goes from strength to strength helming ENO through productive and interesting times. The world's stages are now beckoning. During a break in final rehearsals for Mozart's great opera seria Idomeneo in a new production from multi-media queen Katie Mitchell he talks informally about what being music director of a company like this entails.
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