During his second year as music director of the Hannover Staatsoper, Lu conducted Leosv Janacvek's Jenufa and Richard Strauss 'Elektra. Die Opernwelt, the foremost opera magazine in the German-speaking world, named the Hannover Staatsoper, along with the Stuttgart Opera and the Salzburg Summer Festival, as the best opera houses of the year.
他擔任音樂總監第二年所推出的楊納傑克《顏如花》及理查史特勞斯《艾列克特拉》等歌劇，被德國權威音樂雜誌《歌劇世界》大加讚賞，將漢諾威歌劇院與斯圖加特歌劇院、薩爾茲堡夏季音樂節，同列為 3 大「年度最佳歌劇院」，呂紹嘉更被多位樂評評為「年度最佳指揮」，這是極為難得的殊榮。