"Olafur Sigurdarson possesses a very strong and expressive voice, boasting a wide vocal range, with a colorful palette..."
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Wagner.R - Der fliegende Holländer - The Dutchman
Opera Colorado
Ari Pelto, Conductor
Kathleen Smith Belcher, Stage Director
Wagner.R - Der fliegende Holländer - The Dutchman
Opera Colorado
Ari Pelto, Conductor
Kathleen Smith Belcher, Stage Director
Wagner.R - Der fliegende Holländer - The Dutchman
Opera Colorado
Ari Pelto, Conductor
Kathleen Smith Belcher, Stage Director
Britten, B. - Peter Grimes - Balstrode
Teatro alla Scala Milano
Simone Young, Conductor
Robert Carsen, Stage Director
Britten, B. - Peter Grimes - Balstrode
Teatro alla Scala Milano
Simone Young, Conductor
Robert Carsen, Stage Director
Britten, B. - Peter Grimes - Balstrode
Teatro alla Scala Milano
Simone Young, Conductor
Robert Carsen, Stage Director
Barone Scarpia Tosca and Rigoletto at Leipzig Opera, Prague National Opera as Rigoletto, Macbeth and Telramund, Telramund Lohengrin at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Klingsor Parsifal with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Rigoletto and Alberich in the Ring Cycle with Gothenburg Opera, Captain Balstrode Peter Grimes with the Icelandic Opera, Wozzeck, Flying Dutchman with Finnish National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera as Sancho Don Quichotte.
Alberich
Wagner -Rheingold
Alberich
Wagner -Rheingold
Erhebe dich...
Wagner - Lohengrin
Erhebe dich...
Wagner - Lohengrin
Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
Thus the most convincing performance was reserved for Olafur Sigurdarson, who is able to let the pain behind all his Alberich's desire for revenge shimmer through grippingly.
...a superlative cast: Olafur Sigurdarson's stentorian, anguished Alberich.
Olafur Sigurdarson garnered the greatest cheers from the audience as Alberich, probably rightly so. His was certainly an outstanding performance, seemingly instinctively alert to the dramatic reality and implications of Wagner's particularly dialectical blend of verse, music, and gesture.
Alberich, clearly Wotan’s vagrant-brother, is the astonishing Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, here on top form in his exchanges with a tinnie-toting Wotan…
Olafur Sigurdarson ist darstellerisch und stimmlich eine Idealbesetzung für den Knappen Sancho Panza. Mit großem Spielwitz kommentiert er einerseits die Zweifel an den hehren Träumen seines Herrn, weist aber andererseits das Volk, das sich über Don Quichottes seltsames Wesen lustig macht, beherzt und entschieden in seine Schranken. Mit beweglichem Bariton glänzt Sigurdarson und beherrscht dabei genauso einen leichten Parlando-Ton wie große dramatische Ausbrüche. Ein Höhepunkt des Abends stellt seine Arie im zweiten Akt dar, wenn er sein allgemeines Misstrauen gegenüber Frauen zum Ausdruck bringt. Janelidze verfügt mit seinem Bass über eine markante Tiefe, die sich auch mühelos in baritonale Höhen schwingt. Ihm gelingt es, diesen "Ritter der traurigen Gestalt" in keinem Moment der Lächerlichkeit preiszugeben, auch wenn er den Spott der anderen auf sich zieht.
Ólafur Sigurdarson was a well-rounded Sancho Panza, his robust baritone excellent at the comedy routines but his finest moment came when he vehemently upbraids the crowd for mocking Don Quichotte after Dulcinée’s rejection.
Icelandic baritone, Olafur Sigurdarson, did a brilliant job mining the humour in the score. However, there was a startling and thrilling change in Act IV when he upbraided the crowd for laughing at Don Quichotte. This was powerful, unbridled singing which had an enormous emotional impact. In the final act he showed real affection and tenderness for his dying master.
