Conductor Edward Gardner says he ‘regrets’ calling Italian opera singers mafia - Mayor of Naples called Gardner’s comments ...

Edward Gardner had been threatened with a defamation action by singers at an opera house in Naples.

Naples’ San Carlo opera house threatened Gardner with legal action, describing the conductor’s remarks as “defamatory”.

Edward Gardner is apologizing for comments made regarding the Teatro Carlo’s chorus. The English conductor said, “I wish to ...

Describing the chorus of Teatro San Carlo being “made up of two rival mafia families”, the British conductor has drawn the ...

Edward Gardner OBE is an English conductor, who became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021. Gardner was born in Gloucester in 1974, and was a chorister at Gloucester ...

Former English National Opera music director Edward Gardner has hit out at the previous government’s "bizarre anti-cultural slant". Conductor Gardner said the Labour administration showed "seeds ...