
It's a genuine honour to be one of the featured artists at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, and the retrospective of my work stretching over I believe fourteen concerts (also including a couple of world premieres) is one of the most extensive live surveys of my work ever. The rehearsal schedule has been a brain stretcher for several months, and even the sheaves of tickets cause complications. I'm pictured here finding out which is the one for Blond Eckbert - a very fine, serious production by English Touring Opera, which will indeed tour in the autumn.