[...]
One can't fault the music. The very first number, with a young composer accompanying himself on piano in a very Schuberty pastiche, is quite delectable. Further allusions to other composers such as Wagner and Meyerbeer abound, as the musical satire championed by Offenbach was then in vogue. The Fortuneteller is a rather Verdian-sounding mezzo. [...]

The singers are first-rate, [...] The Fortuneteller is Anjara Ingrid Bartz, and the composer's beloved is Mojca Erdmann; both are excellent. A long trio for the three is a high point of the score, and there is also a robust "orgy" scene, with galops and Spanish rhythms. [...]

RICHARD TRAUBNER, OperaNews / Metropolitan Opera Guild, July 2010 - Vol. 75, No. 1

[...]
Michail Jurowski musiziert mit dem WDR Rundfunkorchester höchst animiert und spritzig, die Solisten agieren solide und erfreulich wortdeutlich.

Anjara Ingrid Bartz zieht mit dunklem Mezzosopran, dessen Brustregister sie effektvoll einzusetzen weiß, als Judith die Fäden. [...]

Ernst Naredi-Rainer, www.kleinezeitung.at, 30.1.2010