…Having started life as a festival focussed on musicals, the Sommerfestival Kittsee successfully changed course in 2009. This year, the intendant duo Peter and Christian Buchmann are presenting Heinrich Berthe´s musical comedy Dreimäderlhaus in the atmospheric courtyard in front of the baroque castle. A hit! (…) They have found a powerful and energetic conductor partner in the shape of Joji Hattori who magnificently highlights and then sweetly merges Berthe´s arrangements of Schubert´s melodies…