Jiří Bělohlávek (1946-2017) was one of the most unobtrusive conducting stars of our time, but as Sir Simon Rattle puts it: “Everyone sees this very friendly, very patrician, very generous colleague, but underneath there is a small volcano at work!” Bělohlávek was voted out of the position of chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic after the Velvet Revolution and made his name at major opera h...