Jeffrey Tate: 'You can't terrify people any more; you have to do it with love'
What makes a great conductor? Did Wagner know how to end his operas? And what happened when Jeffrey Tate's glasses landed in the lap of a viola player during a performance of Lulu? Just some of the questions conductor Jeffrey Tate fields during this interview with Christopher Cook – part of the In Conversation series from the Royal Opera House.Tate began his conducting career at the Royal Opera house in the 1970s, and he is returning for a revival of Der fliegende Hollander, directed by Tim Al...
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