The director on the threat to ENO’s future, how opera is being ‘dumbed down’ – and why he’s staging Tchaikovsky’s blood-soaked Mazeppa ...
NEW YORK – Vladyslav Buialskyi spoke to his mother from Berdyansk, a Ukraine ... and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starting the 90-minute program with Ukraine's national anthem.