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Wright had encountered young South Tyrolese baritone Andrè Schuen (pictured
left) in Austrian genius Thomas Larcher’s opera Der Jagdgewehr (The Hunting Gun), and knew
that after the work’s Aldeburgh performance with two members of the original cast (Schuen was
not one of them) and the success of featuring Larcher as artist in residence during the 2023
Festival, the time was right to spotlight Schuen and the astounding Julius Drake, not a “singer’s