Kazushi Ono conducts  Der fliegende Holländer at Hamburg State Opera this month, and later in the year,  Rusalka  at Opéra national de Paris and  Elektra  for New National Theatre, Tokyo. Beginning a year so full of opera, he tells us about his approach to balancing scores and remembers sneaking into a rehearsal of Carlos Kleiber Compared with studying symphonies, opera takes a lot of time to bring into one’s repertoire. I start the process not with the music, but reading th