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At first the orchestra sounds a little stiff, but as the night goes on Welser-Möst unbends and the combination of his Austrian grace and the Italian orchestra’s warmth is appealing…Crebassa’s... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018More…

Here’s a director who makes no apology for the work…[Pynkoski] creates his own aesthetic of artful, flowing theatricality, which is underlined effectively by Antoine Fontaine’s designs…Špicer... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018More…

this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — Opera, February 2022More…

Best of all is Irina Lungu’s Elettra who tears into her final aria ‘D’Oreste, d’Aiace’ as if there were no tomorrow, which of course there isn’t for her!..As you would expect, the chorus of... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Pogorelich is at his idiosyncratic best...There are searing passages, but it is the poetry that shines through strongest. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, 22nd July 2013More…