reviews

"From the very first second the audience gets the crucial impression: so it must be!"
Beate Kayser, tz

"The sovereignty has to be admired with which this young composer has written a score 
that - without appearing eclectic - transforms atonal sound structures into archaic polyphony, 
as if one musical technique were just the reverse of the other."
Wolfgang Sandner, FAZ

"Every dream includes a trauma, a grimace lurks in every fantasy image, craving in every desire: 
Hirschfeld makes these ambivalences audible in a suggestive way."
Detlef Brandenburg, Kieler Nachrichten

"Greatest Expressivity - with simple means a stifling tight psychological picture is drawn. 
An impressive performance."
H. G. Pribil, Wiener Zeitung

"A hit! The heart gets touched, the brain not blurred. So it shall be, and so it is far too seldom. 
But here it is done!"
Lorenz Tomerius, Die Welt

"Hirschfeld shows a secure feeling for stage developments and dramatic effects."
Pierre Petit, Le Figaro

"Hirschfeld has built his opera with absolute sovereignty and he succeeds in suggesting 
sensuality and theatricality for a whole hour."
Karl Harb, Salzburger Nachrichten

"Out of the tension of the intervals the composer unfolds movement impulses to great melodic 
arches of emphatic, self-confident power."
Eberhard Kremtz, DNN

"Hirschfeld has utterly diverse means of sound at his disposal."
Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Frankfurter Rundschau