No doubt about it: it’s the best opera performance of this season at the Real: the best because it’s the better balanced, the most thrilling and heart-breaking, the most authentic, the deepest.
First of all, due to the extraordinary musical direction of Pinchas Steinberg. The veteran maestro showed off the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid at its best. The orchestra responded with a performance fully dramatic, magnificent in its nuances.
And now comes the question: how is it possible that this same orchestra gave such boring versions in other occasions? Everyone should come to his own conclusions.
Translated from JUAN ÁNGEL VELA DEL CAMPO, EL PAIS, 16 JUNE 2010