Conductors:
Giordano Bellincampi
Harry Bicket
Johannes Debus
Jordan de Souza
Justin Doyle
Dmitri Jurowski
Michail Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski (2018) (2021)
Louis Langrée
Hannu Lintu
Cornelius Meister
Vasily Petrenko (2019) (2019)
Carlo Rizzi
Alexander Shelley
Ralf Sochaczewsky
Ensembles:
Chanticleer (Tim Keeler, Music Director; Gerrord Pagenkopf, Assistant Music Director)
The Choir Of Merton College, Oxford – Benjamin Nicholas, Director of Music
The Music Of Fanny Hensel – Daniel Grossman, Jewish Chamber Orchestra, & soprano Chen Reiss
Philharmonix – Noah Bendix-Balgley, First Concertmaster, Berlin Philharmonic, & Stephan Koncz, Cello, Berlin Philharmonic
VOPERA: Rachael Hewer, Director, and Tamzin Aitken, Producer
Singers:
Frédéric Antoun
Paul Appleby
Ilker Arcayürek
Fleur Barron & Axelle Fanyo (joint interview; 2024)
Piotr Beczala
Joseph Calleja
Allan Clayton
John Daszak & Brindley Sherratt (joint interview; 2020)
Stéphane Degout
Etienne Dupuis
Gerald Finley
Catherine Foster
Hibla Gerzmava
Wallis Giunta
Christine Goerke
Adriana González
Paul Groves
Thomas Hampson
Samantha Hankey & Katharina Konradi (joint interview, 2021)
Hui He
Christian Immler
Ermonela Jaho
Tomasz Konieczny
Dominik Köninger
Lisette Oropesa (2019) (2021)
Marlis Petersen
Lyubov Petrova
Saimir Pirgu
Luca Pisaroni
Marcelo Puente
Christoph Prégardien
Chen Reiss (2019) (2020)
Matthew Rose
Golda Schultz
Brindley Sherratt (2019) (2024)
Nicky Spence
Krisztina Szabó
Jonathan Tetelman
Ludovic Tézier
Soloists:
Gautier Capuçon (2018) (2019)
Lucas Debargue
James Ehnes
Daniel Hope
Jan Lisiecki
Johannes Moser
Alexandra Silocea
Yuja Wang
Collaborative Pianists:
Helmut Deutsch
Company Leaders:
Brad Cohen, General Director, New Zealand Opera
David Devan, General Director & President, Opera Philadelphia
Elena Dubinets, Artistic Director, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Guido Gärtner, Artistic Director, Bremen Philharmonic; former Managing Director Bayerisches Staatsorchester Konzert GmbH
Andreas Homoki, Intendant, Opernhaus Zürich
Michael Mori, Artistic Director, Tapestry Opera
Alexander Neef, General Director, Opéra national de Paris; former General Director, Canadian Opera Company – see also: 2017; 2020
Creative:
Lera Auerbach (Composer / Conductor / Writer / Artist)
André Barbe & Renaud Doucet (Designer/Director/Dramaturgy)
Jack Bertinshaw (First Soloist, National Ballet of Canada)
Matthew Jocelyn (Director / Writer / Librettist)
Barrie Kosky, Director; former Intendant, Komische Oper Berlin
Julie McIsaac (Theatre Artist / Dramaturge)
Douglas McNabney (Ex-Artistic Director, Toronto Summer Music Festival)
Jacopo Spirei (Opera Director)
Alaina Viau (Artistic Director, Loose Tea Music Theatre)
Academia:
Mark Berry, Reader, Royal Holloway, University of London; Nicholas Vazsonyi, Dean, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University
Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music History & Director of Studies in Music, Clare College, Cambridge
Una Hunt, Professor, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama; Soloist
Kai Hinrich Müller, 2023 Thomas Mann House Fellow
Anna Shternshis, Professor, Yiddish Studies. University of Toronto; Executive Producer, Yiddish Glory
Martha Sprigge, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Trippett, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Christ’s College
Writing & Editing:
Axel Brüggemann (Classical Journalist / Writer / Producer)
Boris Dralyuk (Poet / Translator)
Jessica Duchen (Critic / Author / Librettist)
Waldemar Januszczak (Art Critic, The Sunday Times & Documentary Filmmaker/Writer)
Jari Kallio, Music writer; Teacher
Edward Seckerson (Writer / Broadcaster)
Guest Writers:
Tosca (Canadian Opera Company) – review by Tori Wanzama (2023)
Carmen (Canadian Opera Company) – review by Tori Wanzama (2022)
David Trippett, Professor of Music, Cambridge University, on Liszt’s Sardanapalo – interview by Dejan Vukosavljevic (2022)