I’m ready to go with the first performance of Haydn’s London Ladies, this weekend at the Foundling Museum in London, a beautiful Georgian building with strong musical associations. I’ve been working with Joe Austin, who has directed other McCaldin Arts projects, and Richard Hetherington (with whom I have previously performed at the Foundling Museum) to get to the heart of the story about Haydn and his lady-friends in London and I am looking forward to finding out how the audience responds to the combination of narrative and music. Haydn is still under-valued as a composer and I hope this show will remind people of how great he really was.