Guest Conducting Engagement with Royal Opera

This spring, Rafael Payare returns to London’s Royal Opera House to lead Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot (March 19–April 4). The cast also includes SeokJong Baek as Calaf, Anna Princeva and Gemma Summerfield alternating the role of Liù, and Adam Palka as Timur.

After Payare’s 2023 debut at the Royal Opera House conducting Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, the critics were enthralled, with Bachtrack declaring: “It was light, it was airy, it was enthusiastically accented, it was rhythmically on the nail and it elicited the biggest ovation for an opera overture I can remember – and deservedly so, because it set the scene for an evening of buffa entertainment that never faltered.” The Guardian agreed, finding that Payare’s “perky, pacy reading is full of light and shade, with nimbly sprung rhythms crisp as an iceberg lettuce.”

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