“The Voyage” at Klaipeda Muzikinis Teatras, Lithuania. Where is the spaceship” by Zivile Ramoiškaitė (link to translation – originally in Lithuanian) – October 14, 2024
“Maestro Anzolini conducted the premiere performance on October 4, firmly controlling the entire course of the opera. The great climaxes were especially impressive – in the first act, when a spaceship crashes into the ground, in the second – when a storm rages in the ocean, when the sounds of the orchestra simply shook the hall. The conductor was very attentive to each soloist’s entry, showing them precisely, without missing a single detail. The performance moved and pulsated like a living organism …”
“Tosca” at the Landesttheater Linz, Austria. Wiener Zeitung September 13, 2014
(translated from the German) “An acclaimed premiere of Tosca – a sensational start to the season at the Linz Landestheater… With him, love and sorrow in music were in the best of hands”
“Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera, Anthony Tommasini, New York times 2008, April 14, 2008 (full review here)
“..impressive young conductor Dante Anzolini, in his Met debut…in the end the audience erupted in a deafening ovation”
“Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera, Washington Post, April 2008
” (Dante Anzolini) made a memorable debut…by keeping the lyricism and finding the line in the music”
“Tosca” at the Landestheater Linz, Austria,” Kurier Zeitung September 14, 2014
(translated from German) “…rewarded with thunderous applause….a truly magical soundscape accompanying the emotionally charged stage performance…..there was a standing ovation.”
“Concert with the Vienna Symphony”, Markus Hennerfeind writes for the Wiener Zeitung. September 23, 2007
“Dante Anzolini, with pointed conducting technique, relaxed gestures (caused) everybody’s happiness (and an) amazed audience… “
“Appommattox” at the Washington National Opera, Susan Galbraith writes for DCTheatreScene.com, November 16, 2015.
“Notably Dante Santiago Anzolini, the conductor, stepped in at the last minute, after Dennis Russell Davies had to withdraw due to an accident, and, in short order, learned five-hundred pages of music. ““Conductor Anzolini has pulled off the impossible and manages this full orchestra well, deserving the musicians’ appreciative rapping on their stands at his entrance.”
Concert Ars Electronica with Brucknerorchester Linz …OÖ Nachrichten, September 6, 2011
(translated from German) The highly successful performance of Edgar Varèse’s “Arcana” proved far more inspiring. … “Arcana” is not merely a cacophony, … but rather emotional music that also knows how to play softly and ultimately fades into nothingness. It was performed very well by the Bruckner Orchestra under Dante Anzolini.”
“Akhnaten” at Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg. March Munch for Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, September 25, 2002
Dante Anzolini…his baton…of an imperturbable precision…. brings up a constantly clean discourse…” (Glass’ Akhnaten)”
“Mahler First Symphony” with Brucknerorchester Reidar Sunnerstam writes for Norrkoepings Tidningar March 4, 2003
“A most exciting performance…a firm unity of enormous emotionally and beauty in the intense and expressive interpretation of Anzolini…which culminated in the triumphant sound explosion of the symphony’s finale.“
Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” at the Bern Stadttheater Etter writes for “Der Bund” May 22, 1995
“…more lively, spicy (musical direction)…Anzolini’s conception of Mozart has high merits, spontaneous freshness, and touching naturalness…”
“La Traviata” in the Klaipeda Theater, Lithuania. Milda Augulitė writes for the Klaipedos Zinios, January 13, 1995
“Klaipeda has not seen such music success in years. The theatre … pull(ed) together a thrilling performance of G. Verdi’s “Traviata.”…(Anzolini)… worked 14 hours every day to put the pieces together – to produce a magnificent musical performance.”