JERUSALEM

Cristina Fernandes | Público, 05.07.09

(...) With its 'world ache', this opera displays a rather interesting harmonic and timbral work - intense music, at times desperate. The chamber ensemble of the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra was very well conducted by Cesário Costa. And above the orchestral sounds human voices emerged. A well-balanced cast of six rigorous and secure voices was decisive to give thickness to this opera of ideas (...)
A performance of surprising unit, considering it's made up of fragments, leaps in time, unfinished monologues and microdialogues. But the simple and effective work of Luis Miguel Cintra and the beautiful music of Vasco Mendonça gave it its coherence.(...)