Opera Today

“Daniele Rustioni who stepped onto the podium and immediately established his intention to tell an urgent story, not to linger on the emotive moments of its protagonists, or only very briefly.
The pit was Straussian — quadruple woodwinds, two harps, expanded percussion joined the strings to create a maelstrom of sounds that melded Italian lyricism with constant, pithy stage action. The maestro drove it unfalteringly to its shattering ending... The world of the gold-possessed forty-niners were a lively bunch of polished performers that included the beautifully voiced male contingent of the Opera National de Lyon chorus.”

— OperaToday, Michael Milenski