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Review - Stuart Skelton: "the finest Siegmund of our time"
(Yorkshire Post on Act 1 of Die Walküre at Opera North)
The Valhalla newsletter also carried a report of a great success
by Stuart Skelton - one of our special guests at the 2002 AGM, along
with Lisa Harper-Brown and Francis Greep and Michael Black at the
piano. Stuart's performances of Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond
from Die Walküre and Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab! from
Rienzi foreshadowed for the lucky audience the reviews that he has
now received as a result of standing in for Peter Seiffert in a concert
in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in February. On a recent trip to Europe
I was lucky enough to hear Peter Seiffert both in the title role of
Lohengrin in Bayreuth and paired with Deborah Polaski in Mahler's
Das Leid von der Erde with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle.
I was very impressed with Seiffert's rich, ringing Heldentenor voice.
I also heard a concert in the Gewandhaus and was overwhelmed by the
outstanding acoustics of this communist designed and built hall.
The critics, according to Valhalla, gave Stuart bouquets galore:
"Note the name. And if it appears in an opera programme anywhere,
go there", effused Peter Korfmacher for the Leipziger Violkszeitung!
So, if you have not booked for Adelaide - you now MUST, if only to
hear "The last minute replacement tenor [who] puts an end to
to the hero shortage (Korfmacher)"!! Opera Australia has a copy
of the full Leipzig review on its web-site at: http://www.opera-australia.org.au/opera/oaweb.nsf/Wfframemaker2?
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Stuart's next appearance that I found on the web was for Saturday
13 March 2004, 8.00pm, in Bern Cathedral, Bern, Switzerland (if you
happen to be in the vicinity!): The Dream of Gerontius, Stuart Skelton
- tenor; Pavel Daniluk - bass; Marie-Claude Chappuis - mezzo-soprano;
Bern Oratorio Choir; Bern Symphony Orchestra conductor - Laurent Gendre.
Ed
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