The musical execution is inspired, sophisticated, and well-structured. Following several debut performances, it has now become perfectly clear that the appointment of Péter Halász as music director of the new Hungarian State Opera was the most felicitous choice – this young conductor is an explorer and a striking and authentic musician; after the premiere of Richard Strauss’s immensely difficult Die Frau ohne Schatten, hopes should be justifiably high for the success of Mozart’s similarly challenging work.
Read moreFollowing the first performances of Falstaff and Die Frau ohne Schatten in the previous season, Péter Halász’s third premiere now makes it quite palpable that a suitable person has been chosen for the position of music director and that his work as an instructor and as an opera conductor, even to put it conservatively, has been a boon to the accomplishments of the orchestra.
Read moreThe greatest value of the reinterpretation is the orchestral performance: the ensemble of the Opera House plays not only precisely and beautifully, but with the kind of energy, flexibility, and style that has not been heard for a long time.
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