The engagement diary of a leading conductor can reveal many things: musical taste, status, popularity with players, administrators and audiences.
Bohemia ensues, and the film quickly morphs into a bad impression of Rent – though it offers little to threaten that musical's status as the defining seaside postcard of 20th-century queer squalor.
Under his musical directorship the status of the company was recognised with the grant of the title "the Royal Opera".
And despite boasting the musical dexterity of Status Quo, it's a short, sharp shock that dispatches its venom with a tireless guile".
After emigrating and reinventing himself as a Broadway composer, he met with deserved success, but none of his musicals achieved iconic status.
But it's his desire to pursue the lesser trodden musical paths, his outsider status, and iconoclastic music, that have ensured his influence on a variety of music genres like heavy metal, funk, noise music, classical, and the tradition of satirical rock songs.
If in the 90's he went from presumed-dead status to musical cult figure and celebrity pet, at the millennium he has a shot at becoming, well, who knows, something more.
Although the physical building has gone, the Haçienda remains legendary not only for the breadth and depth of its musical policy and its status as a youth culture catalyst, but also for its pioneering vision of the club as a brand.
