Madrid’s Teatro Real Courting Daniel Harding

It seems that all Madrid is clamoring for the young British maestro to become the opera house’s music director following a London Symphony concert he conducted there this week. “You don’t know how grateful we are that you… would consider the possibility of taking the musical directorship,” wrote the critic of El País. “Our quiet lyrical waters urgently need a certain amount of agitation or, even, the kind of tsunami that you might bring.”