“This fabulous Orfeo–rhapsody, with the title Open Ground, is inspired by Salman Rushdie’s novel. It starts as a whisper from an underground world and gradually develops into a musical thriller in which the orchestral “monster” is awakening in pulsing cascades, only to be buried, late on in a sad idyll of oriental colours.”

(Sofia Nyblom, Svenska Dagbladet)

“[Open Ground] is an effectively mastered composition. It is certainly going to be performed around the world as often as some of her earlier works. Very few [composers] have the same feeling for sonic colours and energetic motion in the orchestra as Borisova-Ollas.”

(Thomas Anderberg, Dagens Nyheter)