This appears as a news item in the Daily Telegraph of 26 Oct 2013. But the film it links to is ©-dated 1999.

So when did all this happen? And why is it being presented as a topical news item?

Some confusion somewhere, surely?

A similar story is told of the late Sir Thomas Beecham, taking his stand on the rostrum and saying to his leader "We start with the Figaro Overture, don't we?"

"No, Sir Thomas," said the leader, "Seraglio."

"Oh, said Beecham, and conducted the orchestra straight into that one.

~M~