Great success for the powerful "The Flying Dutchman " conducted by Alevtina Ioffe and the Göteborg Opera

Russian conductor Alevtina Ioffe's take on the Dutch Overture - Wagner's first big hit. Wagner's first big hit - so it really storms in the ditch. Here, the original version is played without and she maintains a firm grip throughout the two-and-a-half hour run. Camilla Lundbergs, svt.se

The performance is played without intermission, which is now common internationally, and that is a big plus. The drama is so much denser without interruptions for chatting and coffee, and the conductor, Alevtina Ioffe, keeps the tension alive at all times, letting the strings sweep seductively during Daland's aria. And with a voice like Åsa Jäger's voice, she doesn't have to hold back the orchestral brilliance. Lennart Bromander, kultur

When Alevtina Ioffe hits the ground running Göteborg Opera orchestra in the overture to "The Flying Dutchman ", it sounds like moulded in one piece: well-balanced and powerful, she whips up the swelling musical storm musical storm that foreshadows the wind-driven ghost ship's arrival. Its captain, the Dutchman himself, is doomed to sail the seas until until he finds true love and a faithful woman - a project that has been going on for hundreds of years, but which ends during two hours that at the Gothenburg Opera are is played without a break. The musical intensity lasts all the way through.

Axel Englund, Expressen

Musically it is very powerful, under Alevtina Ioffe's confident leadership. This is reinforced by the fact that the three acts are played without a break. Martin Nyström, Dagens Niether