Kirill Karabits: pushing the limits | Suzy Klein

Conductor Kirill Karabits is wasting his time if he's not taking music to its limits, he tells Suzy KleinWe're in a dark, backstage room at the English National Opera. Kirill Karabits fixes me with a characteristically deep stare and says, in his Ukrainian-hued English, "You have to be careful with the music, or everything will fall apart. People get nervous with premieres and that gets in the way of the score." He's talking about his cast for Don Giovanni, but surely Karabits should be thinking...

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