My life in music / Sir Antonio Pappano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pappano, Antonio, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pappano, Antonio, 1959---Biography.

Pappano, Antonio.

Music--Great Britain--Biography.

Music.

Conductors (Music)--Biography.

Conductors (Music).

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2024.

Summary:

"A passionate memoir exploring classical music, its restorative qualities and wider cultural influence by the celebrated Music Director of the Royal Opera House. Sir Antonio Pappano is one of the best known and most celebrated conductors alive today. His deeply held belief in the power of music to inspire and enlighten is the motivation behind this long anticipated memoir. In 1969, decades before he was chosen to conduct the music at the Coronation of King Charles, Sir Antonio Pappano was a ten-year-old boy accompanying his father's singing lessons. My Life in Music tells the moving tale of a legendary conductor who, nurtured in childhood by his parents and their dedicated work ethic, goes on to conduct at many of the most influential opera houses of Europe and North America. Pappano skilfully evokes an extensive selection from his wide-ranging repertoire - operas and orchestral works spanning from Mozart to Birtwistle and Mark Anthony Turnage, as well as art song and chamber music works in which he has performed as a pianist - and makes a compelling case for the potential classical music has to captivate new and wider audiences"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Beginnings

Moving to the USA

Learning the operatic ropes: Barcelona

Frankfurt

Bayreuth

First music directorship: Oslo

La Monnaie, and some cautionary tales of travel

A new direction: the Royal Opera House

ROH Productions: some highlights

World premieres at the ROH

Music director

The conductor and the singer

Recording opera, and three great masterworks

Opera audiences

Conducting Wagner

Santa Cecelia

Mozartian intermezzo

Conducting Verdi's Requiem: an appreciation of movements 1 and 2

Investing in the young

At the piano

As one era ends a new one starts

Acknowledgement

Discography.

Notes:

Includes discography and index.

ISBN:

0571371736

9780571371730

OCLC:

1396553274