Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

“…direction of the singers came to fruition especially in the scene of Lucia´s madness. Instead of an empty conventional gesture which we encounter so often, we can see Lucia´s vulnerability, erotic excitement and fall into nothingness brought from within the depths of her inner self.”

(Radmila Hrdinová, Právo)

“This was achieved in a grand style by Marina Vyskvorkina, an Ukrainian who is not just very beautiful but has got an enormous stage talent (was successful also as Traviata at the State Opera in Vienna). Despite the fact that her voice was shrill at very high pitch (which she is certainly going to manage), her overall vocal performance was masterful.”

(Sieglinde Pfabigan, Der Neue Merker)

“It was chiefly Simona Houda-Šaturová who brought the rare purity of style into this jigsaw puzzle while managing the subtleties of expression and technical requirements of belcanto.”

(Helena Havlíková, Lidové noviny)

“A young Korean tenor Yikun Chung and his exalted singing and acting of Edgar has been the discovery of the first evening.”

(Petr Veber, Hospodářské noviny)

“Anton Nekovar is the name of the stage director from Vienna who has managed, in collaboration with stage designer Jan Dušek and costume designer Josef Jelínek, to shun realistic scenery and, with the use of purely modern means, to show something very much like a mirror of the characters’ souls, at the same time conveying the emotional content of the various situations.”

(Sieglinde Pfabigan, Der neue Merker, Wien, 10/2004)