festival in Eutin 2007

(with Robert Chafin as Hoffmann)

A perfect production and very well vocally acting chant-soloists made the premiere a climax of the still young Open-Air-Saison from "Hoffmanns stories" at the Eutiner festivals.[...] 
The third act generated to an optical high-pleasure. In the year 2016 landed, Hoffmann plunges into an erotic adventure with Giuletta. The stage shone futuristic in fluorescent light.Veronika Waldner was entitled to the honor on that occasion, the production chant-like the skim-cap on, to place

Carsten Leng,Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung

One rubs astonished the eyes, sharpens the ears: A success for such a sensitive opera like Jacques open-Bach's Hoffmanns stories on the Eutiner nature-stage comes completely unexpectedly. [...] 
However the crucial situations remains moving chamber-game, as big houses don't offer it all days - also thanks to the excellent solists.
[...] At short notice had to be occupied Hoffmanns dream-structures. All other than stopgaps, they are exemplary representatives of their compartment: ... and Veronika Waldner, support of the Lübecker ensemble, with her immensely secures, warm mezzo-soprano (Giulietta). ..

Günter Zschacke, Kieler Nachrichten, 24.7.2007