Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena.
What must have inspired both cast and orchestra was Daniele Rustioni’s
super-charged conducting: from his smashing account of the overture
(with its quaint quotation of the National Anthem) to the ringing final chords,
he infused the drama with a hotly electrifying dynamism
which the production sadly failed to match.
The Telegraph, Ruperth Christiansen