If Cio-Cio San comes alive on stage through good direction, she is exalted by the addition of inspired conducting.
Pinchas Steinberg elevates the music of Puccini and conducts the orchestra of the Teatro Regio creating an intensity of colours and a brilliance rarely heard.
At the end of the evening the enthusiasm of the public was very evident, and the commentaries unanimous in confirming the exceptional quality of this production. A welcomed renewal with the Italian opera tradition and its character, so admirably excessive, which retains here its full identity even under a modern staging.
Translated from RESMUSIC.COM, 21 NOVEMBER 2010