Artiste: Jussi Myllys

Unter fast 40 Romeo-Vertonungen die wohl kürzeste: aus Blachers Komprimierung von Shakespeares Tragödienstoff zieht die Duisburger Neuinszenierung intensive Überzeugungskraft.

The Castle in the Water, Sallinen's new “chronicle”, is a new work of innovative beauty. Tragic, comic and epic, in seventy-five minutes it tells the history of Olavinlinna and gives a snap-shot of those connected to it.

The loud cheers for the performers were richly deserved, although Jörg Widmann’s imposing but sprawling Babylon was not well-served by the concert format.