With his passionate new memoir, the celebrated Music Director of the Royal Opera House explores classical music, its restorative qualities and wider cultural influence.
In 1969, decades before he was chosen as conductor for 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 this 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.