Yearly Archives: 2010

...Having started life as a festival focussed on musicals, the Sommerfestival Kittsee successfully changed course in 2009. This year, the intendant duo Peter and Christian Buchmann are presenting Heinrich Berthe´s musical comedy Dreimäderlhaus in the atmospheric courtyard in front of the baroque castle. A hit! (...) They have found a powerful and energetic conductor partner in the shape of Joji Hattori who magnificently highlights and then sweetly merges Berthe´s arrangements of Schubert´s melodies...

...The shift from musical to operetta has been masterfully achieved at Schloss Kittsee. Joji Hattori leads the Capella Istropolitana Orchestra and the Kittsee Festival Chorus with a great sense of operetta, taste and tempo, confirming that Hattori can be highly recommended as a conductor of not only opera but also of operetta...