Korngold: Die tote Stadt at the Opera Bastille

In the pit, Pinchas Steinberg brings the Opera orchestra to its pinnacle. 

He avoids all self indulgence in the reading of the score bringing out the dramatic thread, with tremendous restraint, building tension to cataclysmic heights while never threatening the singers.

YANNICK MILLON, WWW.ALTAMUSICA.COM, 27 OCTOBER 2009