“Pablo Heras-Casado, at the helm of the well-rehearsed State Opera Orchestra, leads the ensemble of singers and dancers perfectly—indeed, with flying colors—through Lauwers’s monumental vanity fair.” Kronen Zeitung
“Pablo Heras-Casado confidently led the Vienna State Opera Orchestra—which also shone in its solos—and the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, with its incisive articulation, through Ligeti’s challenging score.” Die Presse
“All of them, who often have to contend with daring shifts in register and extremes of recitative-like singing, are in good hands with conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the orchestra.” Der Standard