I’m very pleased to share that I’ll be making my opera-directing debut at the Paris Opera with Eugene Onegin a production that also marks Semyon Bychkov’s first project since being named the company’s next Music Director. Tchaikovsky’s beautiful and intimate work will open at the Palais Garnier on 26 January 2026 and run through 27 February. I’m deeply grateful for the extraordinary response all performances are already sold out. My sincere thanks to the artists, the company, and to all of you for your continued support. It means a great deal.

As a UNICEF UK Ambassador, I am driven by a profound responsibility to support children worldwide confronting cancer. Their bravery demands more than sympathy it demands action. Through advocacy, awareness, and collective compassion, I strive to help deliver vital care and ensure that every child is given the chance not only to survive, but to live with dignity and hope.

If my work has touched you, know that it came from a place in me that still believes in quiet miracles, unexpected connections, and the kind of beauty that finds you when you’re not even looking.

There are moments in life when silence becomes a kind of punishment. Not the calm, golden silence of morning light through an open window but the heavier kind, the one that presses against the chest like the weight of memory.

I’ve played kings and monsters, poets and priests. But off the screen, I remain someone still learning, still searching. The beauty of life, I’ve found, lies not in grand gestures but in quiet endurance in the moments we dare to feel deeply despite knowing how easily life can undo us.