“…[Gaffigan’s] opulent sound embodiment worked amazing well with Dresen’s dusty grey coal mine setting. Together they created a way to make Puccini’s seldom performed opera believable from start to finish and awakened a hope that we could be both hearing and seeing a return of La fanciulla del West more often at the Bayerischen Staatsoper.
James Gaffigan led the Bayerische Staatsorchester in a strikingly cinematic way, accompanying every transition with luscious colors creating an, one must almost say, orgasm of sound.”
-BachTrack, translated from German, full review here.
