San Antonio Symphony raises emotions with Sibelius piece
San Antonio Express-News 8. November 2014 David Hendricks SAN ANTONIO — A glorious, big-hearted Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 fashioned by Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing Read more …
An opera contest of Wagnerian proportions
8. August 2014 The Seattle Times Melinda Bargreen The audience voted, the orchestra voted, and the judges also voted. Excitement ran high in McCaw Hall Read more …
Richard Strauss — a man of the theatre
Mike Greenberg „Strauss, like Mozart, was a man of the theatre, and so is Mr. Lang-Lessing. There was dramatic point in every gesture and phrase Read more …
Strauss meets Mozart in symphony concert
January 16, 2015 David Hendricks „The Strauss may have won the night by itself. Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing perfectly paced the orchestra through the episodes Read more …
Racette’s Salome Puts Lurid Seal On Opera San Antonio
January 15, 2015 Classical Voice North America Diane Windeler „SAN ANTONIO — As the first full-scale opera of its inaugural season, Opera San Antonio offered the much anticipated debut Read more …
Salome
January 8, 2015 Opera News Mike Greenberg „The San Antonio Symphony sounded glorious, and its music director, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conducted with seamless flow and a Read more …
DOA in Moscow, but now very much alive
November 1, 2014 Mike Greenberg „Let this be a warning to any composer of a symphony, a piano concerto or an opera: Do not allow Read more …
Review: Dallas Opera’s ‘Die tote Stadt’ is mostly worth the wait
March 22, 2014 Scott Cantrell „Die tote Stadt is such a glorious wallow in soaring melodies and sumptuous, brilliantly colored orchestration that the rare actual performance Read more …
Concert Review: The San Antonio Symphony
October 12, 2013 Davis Hendricks „A concert ranging from biblical sweep to 20th century raw orchestral power marked the San Antonio Symphony’s second program of Read more …