Photo credit: Christoph Müller-Girod
Maestro Jonathan Darlington has been keeping the beat for Vancouver Opera as Conductor and Music Director for the past 8 seasons. He also does double duty as the Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany.
In recent seasons, he has kept our audience enrapt as he conducted Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci, Fidelio, Eugene Onegin, Salome and The Marriage of Figaro.
As he takes the nightly podium at Madama Butterfly, VO catches up with Jonathan for a quick round of 9 questions:
Guilty musical pleasure?
Too many to mention.
Where do you love to sing?
In the bath
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
A balmy summer’s evening with the family on a Greek island
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Over enthusiasm
Who are your favourite heroes/heroines of fiction?
Captain Dobbin in Thakeray’s “Vanity Fair”
Who are your favourite characters in history?
Nelson, Frederick the Great, Henry the 4th of France.
Who are your favourite heroes/heroines in real life?
Stephen Hawking
Who is your favourite author?
Tolstoy
Your favourite musician?
Haydn
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