“Together with the excellent opera chorus, the performance achieves a level of musical quality that leaves any supposed ‘regional theatre standards’ far behind. Despite certain compromises, what can currently be heard at the Graz Opera stands confidently alongside international competition.”

“Conductor Johannes Braun drives the musical momentum forward; together with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, he shapes an instrumentally compelling, intense, yet remarkably light Mozart sound. The accompagnato recitatives—so crucial in the work’s then radically innovative structure—are vivid and full of life.”