“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 (costumes: Lot Lemm).”
Kronen Zeitung
“As at the premiere, 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
„Sie alle, die sich oft in gewagten Lagewechseln und sprechgesanglichen Extremen ergehen müssen, sind bei Dirigent Pablo Heras-Casado und Orchester gut aufgehoben“
[All those who often find themselves having to navigate daring shifts in dynamics and extremes of recitative-like singing are in good hands with conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the orchestra.]