Sir Antonio Pappano sits in his dressing room in a long-sleeved T-shirt, extremely relaxed. The conversation will take place in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, a stop on the London Symphony Orchestra’s (LSO) tour of Germany. Pappano, 64, first worked with the orchestra in 1996 and has made numerous recordings with them. Next autumn he will succeed Sir Simon Rattle as LSO chief conductor. This also ends Pappano’s more than two-decade tenure as chief conductor of London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Antonio Pappano becomes chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Interview. – Culture
