Elaine Padmore has had a dream career for someone passionate about music. She has been a performer (both a pianist and singer), an editor at Oxford University Press, a radio broadcaster, director of opera for the BBC and then artistic director of the Wexford Opera Festival before becoming Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House. Having made her way to the top with stopovers everywhere else she comes across as a very seasoned, solid, down-to-earth professional. Indeed, when I met Padmore at her office during the Easter break I was confronted with a strong personality, but not an impossible ego. A welcome difference between her and some of her continental colleagues of the Mortier, Lissner breed, one might say. The conversation flowed naturally and was particularly focused upon the need both for high artistic standards and for general…
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