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He was out to create something 'unheard-of', observed conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt beforehand. And true to form What the conductor had to offer as he commenced his Mozart/Da Ponte cycle in the Theater an der Wien was something we Inchhad never before heard like thisInch (Kurier). Nikolaus Harnoncourt, InchmasterInch of period performance practice, realized a project that had long been one of his dearest wishes for the first time, he and his Inchoriginal-sound orchestraInch Concentus Musicus and his personal choice of singers were presenting the complete Mozart/Da Ponte cycle and harvesting the fruits of his Mozart research - an Inchenthusiastically acclaimed cycle!Inch (news. At). During an intensive phase of rehearsal and preparation, he was in search of a Mozart hermeneutic resting on historical sources and yet anchored in our own time, in order to stage the whole Da Ponte InchtrilogyInch - Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte - in a matter of a mere six weeks. InchThe culmination of Harnoncourt's involvement with [Mozart's Da Ponte operas] - A Mozart drawn from historical sources and yet anchored in our own time. Inch (Die Presse)
