“At the dress rehearsal of “Rusalka”, the first impression is of the all-encompassing beauty of the sound-world. Prior savours the yearning and poetry in the opera, but also the huge dramatic surges, the festival orchestra (Tiroler Festspiele) follows him with great ease”
Egbert Tholl, Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Alexander Prior confirmed his reputation as an insider-tip. With subtle small gestures he submerged the music down to invisibility, and then ignited storms of sound with furious large gestures. The orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele followed: there was playful natural magic from the harp and woodwinds to reveling in the choir’s proud trumpeting simultaneous to calls to damnation for Rusalka, who roared like a “dies irae” doomsday, thoughtfully planned and musically gripping.”
Wolf Dieter Peter, Abendzeitung München
Photo: Xiomara Bender
