The over-fussy Janacek production by Christoph Marthaler, for instance, was booed as well as cheered with a gusto (too) rarelyencountered in the Karajan era.
Costumed for most of the play in widow's black, her body taut, almost wired, hands stretched, her face blanched with sorrow, she lives every moment of this tragedy with an intensity rarelyencountered in the theatre.