MusicWeb international
2017 November
By
By
Mark Sealey
2017 November
"The set is striking. It is modern and intentionally sterile ... The principals sing with projection and vigour, yet interact - as they should - more with one another than with the audience. Soprano Marlis Petersen is superb as Lulu. She has just the right balance of haughtiness and nonchalance, self-serving flirtatiousness and - above all - disdain for those she attracts ... Other singer-performers who deserve positive mention include baritone Christian Rieger, tenor Rainer Trost, baritone Bo Skhovus, and tenor Matthias Klink. The orchestral playing is sensitive yet urgent. Kirill Petrenko clearly understands the need for subtlety ... This present staging and performance, with impressive and characterful acting as well as playing are entirely convincing and ought actively to pull in a new audience ... It is definitely a Lulu of our times".