Our Man in Hawaiʻi

Go Inside the Huddle with Dane Lam. The Australian-Chinese-Singaporean conductor shares his perspective on the state of opera in the Asia-Pacific. Lam is set to conduct Sir Thomas Allen’s hit production of The Marriage of Figaro for Scottish Opera.

In the Two-Minute Drill, the Met loses Saudi funding, Beatrice Venezi loses her job, and Opera Philadelphia says “Let ‘em eat cake!” Plus, a pair of field reports in the Listener Mailbag from the Giulio Gari Foundation Competition Finals and the Yale Baroque Opera Project and a Good Call for Jonathan Biss.