“For Gaffigan [conducting a new production at Bayerische Staatsoper] is the highlight of his career so far, he speaks of a “milestone”. For the first time, the chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has directed the premiere of a new production at a leading opera house. He burns for the theater, is crazy about the big stage. “I’m an opera queen without the Queen part,” Gaffigan confesses in the conversation, and perhaps this is also owed to the Sicilian origin of part of his family...
Above all, it is the music that, under the direction of Gaffigan, clearly takes a position – a drama in high tension. For the time after Lucerne Gaffigan toying with the opera. A solid commitment to a theater would be the next step for him. In Munich it has been shown that he has what it takes. The potentials are clear.”
-Neue Zürcher Zeitung, full feature here.
