Julia Jones has received excellent reviews for the premiere of Handel's Alcina at Oper Frankfurt.
“The Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, with its baroque instrumentation and approximately 30 musicians, is carefully conducted by Julia Jones. Jones is not a fan of extreme tempo shifts, high-speed climaxes or other supposed Baroque revivals. Together with the orchestra, she relies on the expressiveness and beauty inherent in the score, with a highly precise playing style. And this works extremely well, especially when accompanying the entire ensemble of singers.”
– Monika Rittershaus, Opera Online
“The sound that Julia Jones creates with the superbly arranged orchestra in the raised pit is one of noble restraint, tasteful and, despite the lack of vibrato in the strings, exemplary in its clean intonation.”
- Michael Demel, Der Opernfreund
“Handel is as modern as he can sound here, which also applies to Jones’ historically informed but decidedly contemporary conducting”
- Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau
“Julia Jones has transformed the opera and museum orchestra into a splendid Handel ensemble. With it, the conductor conjures up the colour palette with which the composer wrote what is perhaps his most sophisticated opera score.”
- Bernd Künzig, SWR Kultur
