We interviewed conductor Speranza Scappuccci last year shortly after we met her in Washington DC and learned that she will be appearing at the Rossini Opera Festival this summer. Since then she has been busy with performances throughout the world. Her recent performances in US included a much praised "La Sonnambula" which prompted the NYTimes music critic to suggest that it was time for her to "conduct across 65th street at the Met"!
Her most recent US performances were at LA Opera where she revitalized the musical values in the warhorse, La Boehme While at LA Opera, Scappucci was interviewed at length for KUSC and we posted the link to that interview.
Source: http://www.rossiniamerica.org/
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