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...Although musical standards under Sebastian Weigle were decent, this was overall an on-off performance. ★★★☆☆ To February 16, roh.org.uk...
...Rimsky-Korsakov’s score is opulent and enchanting, and Sebastian Weigle brings just the right combination of sincerity and pragmatism to the job of keeping it all together — never too sentimental, always...
...Humperdinck’s music is saturated in echoes of Wagner, from Die Meistersinger in the overture to Siegfried in the witch’s scene, and the conductor, Sebastian Weigle, drew playing that glowed with Germanic...
...Sebastian Weigle conducts a Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on top form in a well-paced performance that only lingers excessively over the closing trio, as if not really wanting Fleming to go....
...The Staatskapelle Berlin under guest conductor Sebastian Weigle produces well-contoured phrases and propulsive rhythms but an at times steely sound quality....
...Sebastian Weigle of the Frankfurt Opera conducts with admirable care for both expressive intimacy and temperamental bravado....
...Sebastian Weigle, Generalmusikdirektor in Frankfurt, did his best to balance momentum and accuracy in the pit. He succeeded some of the time. To April 8, metopera.org...
...Sebastian Weigle’s conducting is organic, clear, strong and yet profoundly human; throughout, we are swept along on Tchaikovsky’s musical tide....
...He is changing his title from music director to music-director emeritus, and is forgoing next season’s Rosenkavalier (Sebastian Weigle takes over) plus at least one Carnegie Hall concert (David Robertson...
...Sebastian Weigle conducts with both sensitivity and transparency, drawing out the score’s lush beauty without wallowing in excess....
...The singing is otherwise as undistinguished as the conducting: Sebastian Weigle races through the score as if trying to keep up with Katharina’s flighty fancy....
...Weigle gives us a startlingly intimate view of the piece, full of humanity. The orchestral playing is superb....
...I had not heard of him before but I was impressed: he found far more colour in the orchestra than Sebastian Weigle had in Meistersinger and showed an unerring ability to “place” climax within a long-unfolding...
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