To Puccini’s most refined score, which seizes the Japanese setting in its lightness and filmy transparency, Steinberg assures fluidity, precision and poetry.
The orchestra of the Regio followed him well: in this way the idyllic enchantment of the first act gradually darkens in its colours and harmony, among silences which are as expressive as the notes, until the terrible final stroke.
Translated from LA STAMPA, 16 NOVEMBER 2010