There has been much praise for Kazushi Ono’s musical direction of Dvořák’s Rusalka at Opéra national de Paris, directed by Robert Carsen ‘This radiant beauty blends perfectly with the constant sumptuousness of Antonín Dvořák’s orchestration, enhanced by the ever-magnificent Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris: those shimmering surges of the strings, those fragrances of the woodwinds, those enchanting melodic curves, that silken sound that delights and intoxicates — under the fluid

In December, Kazushi Ono conducted Brussels Philharmonic in Scriabin's Fifth Symphony , Prométhée – Le poème du feu , in a groundbreaking concert format integrating a light installation and video art by Iranian-German artist Nazanin Fakoor. The visionary composer scored the symphony to include a 'colour organ' that would reflect the 'colours' of the music, bringing sight and sound together in a synesthetic experience. Fakoor's site-specific light sculpture floated above the