Brangäne, Tristan und Isolde, R.Wagner,

State-opera Hanover, Premiere 5.12.2004
with Shigeo Ishino as Kurwenal

  

Foto A. T. Schaefer

... However a true discovery is Veronika Waldner as Brangäne, she is still engaged at the  theater in Lübeck, already as new Wagner-singer from itself soon should talks do

Ullrich Bohn, M&T

... Just the Veronika Waldner´s Brangäne comprehends in Hanover as the only one that itself between the lovers enormous, far over human-measurement of exiting occurs. With strict, dismally and she aims sharp plaintive sound at those miraculous areas, to which this performance refuses otherwise consistently. So, a contrast then opens at least to the normal here...

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reinhard J. Brembeck, 7.12.04

... and the fresh, emphatically suffer-capable Brangäne of Veronika Waldner wins emphatic presence.

Jörg Königsdorf, Tagesspiegel, 7.12.04

 

 

theater in Lübeck, Premiere 4.9.2004

Foto Thomas M. Jauk

...Veronika Waldner was impressive as Brangäne. From the first up to the last sound, the text-comprehensible mezzosoprano made happy with her unmistakable timbre and dominated the events occasional vocalic. Distinguished in the contact with her chant-like possibilities she needed not to fear any orchestra-tutti and she exploded the premises of the house with her enormous vocalic volume in several times. ...

 S. Martens, Opernglas, 11/2004

... Into the center, however, Veronika Waldners Brangäne with her colorful voice of truly high-dramatic format turned. ...

Gerhart Asche, Cresendo 06/2004

The premiere finished with jubilation for a filling with enthusiasm evening. ....  The singers are third point.... Veronika Waldner joins  to them, hers intensive Brangäne to the center of this 1.act and their warning cry in the 2.act is going under the skin: This warm, facet-rich mezzosoprano was singing into the hearts of the opera-fans in Lübeck.

 Güz, Lübecker Stadtzeitung 7.9.2004

.... Anyway, the evening belonged to the singers, who offered a quality enormous for a moderate-sized city-theater.  ..... Veronika Waldners Brangäne had more colors there, more high-dramatic format in the voice and did her role with it more than once to the center of the events.

Gerhart Asche, Opernwelt/11, 2004

.... But all this took second place to soloists, with whom one looks for superlatives in vain, that can also appreciate these performances only halfway. Where should one start, where stops - and why??? Was to the Brangäne miraculous a Veronika Waldner's there, that marvelously the role her rounds, but also quite dramatic mezzosoprano lent and their "Habet acht" - cry a cold shiver over the backs hunted. .... But also the remaining cast was on absolute world class-level: ..

WFS, Mittelloge.de

It still exists, the theater-miracles - breathless tension a'la Hitchcock, highest emotional sentiment, musical and scenic persuasion! And this everything in the North German "province!" With the standard-placing premiere of Wagner "Tristan und Isolde", the theater in Lübeck gives the proof that a trip is worthwhile for an opera-visit through the republic crosswise. Of what does this "miracle" consist? It has several reasons, among them two protruding ones: Marion Amman as Isolde, that managed all cliffs of the part with apparent easiness. Beside her was Veronika Waldners Brangäne in singing and in performancing equivalent. ..... Brangäne, shattering between duty-fulfillment and rebelling, makes the first act to the event - when one ever would have experienced it so exciting

 Arnold Werner-Jensen, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung