Name: Slapstick and the Voice of Love
Item: Le nozze di Figaro
Author: Herbert Büttiker

The performance began with verve. The well-staffed orchestra under Nayden Todorov shaped the evening with precise wind playing and buoyant tuttis; because it sat almost at stage level, it also moved visually to the center — a flowering landscape of sound, melody and driving rhythms. … Overall, the production delighted through musically brilliant, warmly pulsing performance.

"On the whole, however, it was a musically brilliant and warmly pulsating performance that delighted. The dialogue sparkled in effervescent yet musically polished recitatives. Sonorous and full of movement, the chorus too — more than one would expect in a «Nozze» — contributed to an exceedingly dynamic staging. […] The performance had begun with verve: the well-cast orchestra under the direction of Nayden Todorov stamped the evening with accurate wind playing and a springy tutti, and since it played almost at stage level, the singing and the pit merged into an unusually immediate whole."