Fabio Cherstich

‘Everything I do is about choosing a story and finding an effective and interesting way to tell it,’ says Fabio. ‘What’s amazing to me about opera is that it remains a direct, live communication tool, though it sings instead of speaking.’ The story the director/set designer tells in this issue is his own – or that of his flat in Milan, which he relishes for the ‘surreal sense of rooms filled with the wrong elements’