"Despite a cast in which only the soprano could be remotely called a "big" name, musically, this run of performances did considerable justice to the opera. Krassimira Stoyanova sings the long and difficult role of Danae very well. She does not, perhaps, possess the ecstatic purity of the truly great Strauss voices (Gundula Janowitz or Lisa della Casa, for example), but she is always musical in her phrasing and accurate in her intonation ... Franz Welser-Möst ... conducts admirably. There is both clarity and passion in his handling of the greatest of all Strauss orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic ... To counterbalance the excellence of the musical side is the mediocrity of Alvis Hermanis's production ... For me, the musical side is paramount, so I am very pleased to have this issue".