16/10/2007 Great success for Attilio Cremonesi Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, conducted by Attilio Cremonesi in the Theater Basel (from September 12th until October 16th) was hailed by a resounding success from the audience and from the critics. Wolfgang Schreiber (Süddeutsche Zeitung) wrote: “Enthusiasm and conflict, loyalty and jealousy, total dedication and mortal fear. Mozart’s music is particularly aware of all this and the young Italian conductor Attilio Cremonesi has the scholarly knowledge and subtle ear to highlight its blazing emotions. Cremonesi, at home with ancient music and a long-time assistant of René Jacobs, conducts in a way that makes the work’s rhetoric and pulsating affects – hardly ever have those been heard more descriptively - entirely transparent. He and the finely balanced kammerorchesterbasel, playing on both ancient and modern instruments, vitally create a language of sound in which the moments of musical expression are shaped and revealed by both the orchestra and the singers – through variations and ornaments, fermatas, telling pauses and small improvisations. Showing that vibrating vitality is musical law”.