Euryanthe

"Recommended: The singers are a splendid group indeed. Jacquelyn Wagner is a true find as Euryanthe. Her soprano voice glows and soars in just the way one would hope. She presents an honest and stabilizing heroine and is helped by her physical beauty ... Norman Reinhardt's Adolar is a veritable feast of lyrical singing. He delivers his phrases with elegant line and mellifluous tone ... Stefan Cerny is a very sympathetic and stabilizing presence as King Ludwig, singing with authoritative yet sensitive tone ... Constantin Trinks directs a lovingly nurtured unfolding of Weber's fantastic score. He essays a perfect balance of classical restraint with outright Wagnerian urgency and the orchestra with its very talented French horn section rises magnificently to the occasion. The Arnold Schoenberg choir really is on splendid form here and they enter into their stage roles with real abandon".

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"Christof Loy arbeitet sich mit Furor ab an dem abstrusen Prüfungsstück als Wette um Treue, Scham und Schuld, Wahnsinn und wundersame Auferstehung ... Unterstützt wird er von einer sehr ordnentlichen Besetzung. Die agiert kammermusikalisch als Quartett der vier Hauptfiguren. Die Euryanthe von Jacqueline Wagner spielt somnambul, singt jugendlich dramatisch direkt ... Das ORF-Radiosymphonieorchester unter Constantin Trinks mach musikalisch spannendes, farbensattes Drama. Verlässlich wie stets: der Arnold Schoenberg Chor".

"It's a classic example of the modern minimalist staging that Christof Loy has been perfecting over the years ... Like much of Loy's recent work the production is set in a large white room with minimal furniture. The cast is dressed formally as if for a modern concert ... Economy throughout is the watchword here ... The cast and their movements mirror up to their characters - the 'goodies' Euryanthe and Adolar tall and fair and more stately, the 'baddies' Eglantine and Lysiart shorter and darker and more bendy and flexible ... But do not damage the impression that, under Constantin Trinks's well-judged handling of both dynamics and dramatic atmosphere, this is the most approachable and effective Euryanthe yet in the current catalogues".