Because I discuss the project before I find myself in the theatre. Such situations end in meetings at my home north of Milan. Beautiful projects have collapsed during such meetings, and I am glad they did. If I decide to go ahead with a modern project such as the last production of Tosca in Amsterdam with Nikolaus Lehnhoff, it is because I am convinced about it. Funnily enough, it was one of the greatest successes we had at the opera thus far.
Opera needs to be renewed in terms of what people see, but with great care and attention to changes.
After all, his experiments with percussion are not radically new given that percussion served as the basis for music in Africa and Asia for centuries. Zappa would test friends and new acquaintances with Ionisation in his living room. The reason for the delay with public and musicians is the modernity of the language. It is complicated to perform and the difficulties are considerable for both conductor and orchestra soloists. But there are excellent orchestras in Europe.