Mozart in Hamburg: Ádám Fischer's triumph with the Mitridate stroke of genius

"I think," said Hugo von Hofmannsthal, "an audience is never completely wrong." Just like the often unfriendly Hamburg audience, who warmly applauded the conductor Ádám Fischer after the break, and at the end cheered him and the orchestra, which he animated brilliantly and which was included in the stage action in a production of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's "Mitridate, re di Ponto" that was both dark and funny. In Birgit Kajtna-Wönig's production, musicians and singers are connected by a tapestry that stretches from the background to the ramp (stage: Marie-Luise Otto), whose images and symbols come from the arsenal of theater and opera history and serve as ciphers for a universal drama about power and mercy, justice and virtue.