"An enrichment for the repertoire"

"The debut of the new ballet director of the Vienna State Ballet, Alessandra Ferri, at the State Opera shows the direction in which the future of the company is heading: Ballet at the highest level, many outstanding newly engaged dancers and choreographies rooted in the classical ballet vocabulary."

"Kallirhoe, the first ballet premiere under the new director Alessandra Ferri, brings passion in a neoclassical style: an enrichment for the repertoire (...) Raw energy, anger, despair and great love: all this is expressed so energetically in the story ballet Kallirhoe that it is a joy."

"The amazing thing is that this eclectic work does everything a good story ballet should: the perfect combination of dance and action-driven gestures to a clear story in a great and demanding choreography. (...) Both the corps and the soloists demonstrated what a danced drama can achieve: tension, fascination, beauty. Ratmansky is a sensitive, precise choreographer who can create wonderful lifts, turns, jumps and phrasing."

"Sumptuous and theatrical: the Vienna State Ballet celebrates its first premiere under Alessandra Ferri with Ratmansky's danced love story - European premiere and rapturous applause."