Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2009
An Ideal Team at the Semper Oper
Semper Oper Dresden / Staatskapelle Dresden
With such complexity and clarity of stage direction, it is all the more important that the musical statement be well-presented, and in Dresden, the conditions for this were ideal. Under the high-voltage conducting of Stefan Lano, the Staatskapelle rendered this exceptionally colorful score an astonishing dramatic life of its own.