Interview with the Belgian-American conductor, composer and pianist Giulio Cilona, 2nd Kapellmeister at Staatsoper Hannover, before the premiere of director Lydia Steier's Le nozze di Figaro.
By setting the action within a secondary school, we are able to access protagonists who are really young – on the cusp of sexual awakening, grappling with big intellectual ideas and at a place in their lives where things happen for the first time, and where interactions with adults can be fraught.
