New era for Royal Opera House as Jakub Hrusa, Speranza Scappucci take centre stage

There is a new generation this season at London’s Royal Opera House, where Jakub Hrusa took over after Antonio Pappano’s 22-year reign as music director, and Speranza Scappucci became the first principal guest conductor in nearly three decades. Last autumn, Hrusa led the company’s first new staging of Puccini’s Tosca since 2006 and its first production of Janacek’s The Makropulos Case, while Scappucci conducted a revival of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, the rarely performed original French...