Gergiev’s Berlioz: The critics’ views Gergiev shaped these movements exquisitely in a driven, dynamically fluid performance. Allan Kozinn, New York Times on Gergiev conducting Romeo and Juliet
Berlioz … requires both quicksilver responses and the ability to sustain the longest of melodic lines. Both qualities are exactly what makes Gergiev the theatrical opera conductor he is. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times on Gergiev conducting Romeo and Juliet
Gergiev drew achingly expressive singing … charged with intensity. Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
‘A new world of music’ ‘Music, Berlioz will write, ‘has wings too wide to spread fully within the confines of a theatre’.’ David Cairns, Berlioz biographer
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