Tell us a little about your background and how your interest in music and specifically opera developed. I was born in 1956 in Cable Street in London’s East End, and I am the only opera impresario who spent their childhood

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An organist, unlike other instrumentalists, is tied to the space where the organ is located. It is in knowing that space and the properties of the instrument that the performer can optimize even the greatest organ’s sound. And, Mr. Latry