“….the orchestra under Dante Anzolini makes the chugging ostinatos and shimmering arpeggios flirt with poetry.”

Financial Times, Martin Bernheimer, April 15, 2008

“That the impressive young conductor Dante Anzolini, in his Met debut, kept the tempos on the slow side lent weight and power to the repetitive patterns. At times, though, during stretches in the opera when Mr. Glass pushes the repetitions to extremes, as in the wild conclusion to the final choral scene in Act I, the music became a gloriously frenzied din of spiraling woodwind and organ riffs…you are not likely to hear the long, ethereal sextet in the last act sung with more calm intensity and vocal grace than it was here….(at the end of the performance) the audience erupted in a deafening ovation…”

New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, April 14, 2008

“….everything that reached the eye and ear was on the same exalted level…the Met Orchestra, conducted by Dante Anzolini, an Argentine making his Met debut, let the arpeggios luxuriate. The sound was gorgeous…the singing, from soloists and chorus, was uniformely wonderful…”

Los Angeles Times, Mark Swed, April 14, 2008

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“….an evening that moves forward like a dream….it provides an all too rare demonstration of the fact that new opera can indeed be contemporary art.”
” If the work has a hope of reaching those (traditional opera) listeners, it is through the high musical standards of this production… placed it in the capable hands of Dante Anzolini, who made a memorable Met debut…by keeping the lyricism and finding the line in the music…”

“Musically, under Dante Anzolini, an Argentinean conductror making a splendid Met debut, things sound as fine as the staging looks…”
New York Post, Clive Barnes, April 14, 2008

“…Throughout the work, Glass threads the rhythms, increasing tempi, and mounting intensity of Indian raga. Also, given the profoundly spiritual nature of the enterprise, a listener can’t be dismissed for detecting the echoes of Gregorian chants. Dante Anzolini, the conductor making his Met debut, brought all these implicit facets out with exacting nobility.”

www.theatermania.com, David Finkle. April 13, 2008

“…an enormous success in the Linz Theater…the faithful standing public
greeted the conductor Dante Anzolini with stark applause”….”uncountable curtain calls”…
(“almost private” section)
“Dante Anzolini, who luckily always returns to Linz, gave Delibes’music the
needed dynamics to make the choreography completely believable”
(“Culture section”)

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“The Vienna Symphony seemed to be enchanted with this program, so having played under the very secure and musical bathon of Mo.Dante Anzolini, it gave its very best”

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“Spain’s flowers” (title)
“Dante Anzolini, with pointed bathon technique, and relaxed gestures -everyone was happy, not last the marvelled audience”
Markus Hennerfeind

“A time travel with new sounds”(title)
(in Ligeti’s Piano Concerto)…the great solist (Nami Namkawa) found a dedicated and waked accompanying skills…(in Frank Zappa’s music) the orchestra celebrated a full and deeply felt combination between classical and avant-garde harmonies with shuddering effect”