2019
Multimedia Director for Die Frau ohne Schatten
conductor Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Bucharest
As is now customary in these Bucharest concert performances, the multimedia director Carmen Lidia Vidu supplied a clever backdrop of graphics: the animation might at times have looked Pythonesque, but even its wit was rooted in the meaning of the work, and the way in which Vidu played with ideas and images going right back to the original costumes evoked a world in which ‘Übermächte’ were still very much ‘im Spiel’.
JOHN ALLISON, editor-in-chief Opera magazine