Her mentor is called Riccardo Muti. She, Erina Yashima, attended the first edition of the Italian Opera Academy held by the Maestro in Ravenna in 2015. Since then, all doors have been open to the young, very talented director of Japanese origin with a German passport.
Erina Yashima conducts the ORT and violinist Elly Suh in a program that spans the reinvented folklore of Ligeti and DvoĆák to the clear youthfulness of Bizet at the Teatro Verdi in Florence on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.