Janos Gereben <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >It will take another couple of years (why so long?), but Richard Hickox >*will* take over directorship of Opera Australia from Simone Young then. >That's a really fine conductor replacing a fair-to-middling one. Does that mean that he will give up the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, which he only took over a year or so ago? He is a neighbour of sorts of mine as he's recently moved to Bath. Virginia Knight Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html