NathalieStutzmann

Press

• Metropolitan Opera debut

  New York

  Jun 2023

  • Stutzmann, the music director of the Atlanta Symphony orchestra, is making a splashy Met debut (...). The orchestra sounded polished for her, weighty without being too heavy, the winds beautifully present in the textures from the overture on, the singers never covered. There was no sense of rushing as a lazy way of conveying liveliness, but neither was the tenderness ever bogged down.

    • The New York Times
    • 07 May 2023

  • In the pit, Nathalie Stutzmann put on a fine display in the first of two Mozart operas that she will essentially author this month. (…) Throughout the night, Stutzmann’s interpretation was on point. This orchestral texturing remained consistent throughout, always beautifully intertwined with the singers. This push-pull connection that was so plain to see in the staging was similarly felt in the music-making with the singers given ample space to add ornamentation in arias and even expand recitative passages.

    • Operawire
    • 06 May 2023

  • Stutzmann was game for anything that McBurney threw her way, but the score emerged in all of its beauty and brilliance. The spoken dialogue was amplified throughout the house, but the singing was not. Stutzmann got the balance just right, as she did between orchestra and singer... As in Don Giovanni, which Stutzmann is also conducting at the Met this month, she intuitively knows how to showcase a singer to their best advantage.

    • New York Classical Review
    • 23 May 2023

  • A splendid cast led by Nathalie Stutzmann in an impressive Met debut makes Don Giovanni a must-see... Stutzmann’s striking command of the musical side reveals an exciting new opera maestro... From the first thundering chord of the overture, her orchestra responds with exceptional precision and transparency—particularly the winds.

    • The Observer
    • 05 May 2023