| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Apr-2013 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | A musical thrill at the Wiener Konzerthaus: Simon Boccanegra recorded live |
 With the business situation in the recording industry being what it is, studio recordings of operas are more or less ruled out. The positive side of this is that the general public gets the chance to be part of concerts that are recorded and enjoy the tension such an event creates more often.Read full review... | |
| 13-Mar-2013 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Luisi brings logic and inevitable joy to one of his last Vienna Symphony concerts |
 The great jazz composer Bob Brookmeyer used to instruct his students that they should never write a solo section in their composition until it was absolutely inevitable that a solo should take place. In other words, he encouraged composers never to use a form simply because that form had previously existed; rather, they should create new musical events only when the internal logic of their piece, or their musical intuition, dictated. In this well-balanced program, Fabio Luisi’s direction provided a clarity that revealed the internal logic of all three works.Read full review... | |
| 22-Nov-2012 Theater an der Wien | Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at the Theater an der Wien |
 Institutional violence has been a running theme in Torsten Fischer’s series of Gluck operas at the Theater an der Wien, albeit with a lid kept firmly on the idea of actual conflict.Read full review... | |
| 6-Jul-2012 Theater an der Wien | Tales retold: Hoffmann restaged at the Theater an der Wien |
 The venerable Viennese tradition of airing dirty operatic laundry in public found an unlikely proponent this season in the form of the Theater an der Wien’s mild-mannered director Roland Geyer, who, unhappy with William Friedkin’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann in March, abruptly sacked the American director and announced he would devise a new staging himself a matter of months before the second run.Read full review... | |
