| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Feb-2013 Theater an der Wien | Sex, wine and bel canto bliss: Le Comte Ory at the Theater an der Wien |
 When Jean-Christophe Spinosi stepped onto the podium to conduct Le Comte Ory that night, he didn’t wait for his applause to cease, but instantly cued a hearty forte from the Ensemble Matheus, and consequently a few incredulous looks from the audience.Read full review... | |
| 25-Aug-2012 Haus für Mozart | Giulio Cesare in Salzburg |
 Giulio Cesare, an opera populated with manipulative characters that only interact with each other when shared interests are at stake, is a receptive vessel for a scornful indictment of imperialism and the dubious alliances it forges. With recourse to the obvious present-day target it is perhaps also a concept already fully mined by Peter Sellars, who in the late 1980s presented Caesar as a high-handed U.S. president out to further American interests in the Middle East, and revisited themes of Western moral hypocrisy in his 1996 Glyndebourne staging of Theodora.Read full review... | |
