Sir Antonio Pappano sat down with us for another episode of Ā«the art of conductingĀ» before his concert on 13.05.2019. The English-Italian conductor and pianist is the music director of the Royal Opera House and was the music director of the Orchestra dellāAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia until 2023. He talked to us about the authority needed to direct an orchestra, his continued connection to sound and culinary-musical metaphors.