Ortrud, Lohengrin, R.Wagner,

theater in Lübeck 2006 (with Marion Amman as Elsa)

  

Foto: Lutz Roeßler

 .... Heroine of the evening is Veronika Waldner as Ortrud. As well as vocally as also acting awards her to that of the ambition of corroded schemer a virtually alarming presence. ...

Eva-Maria Mester, Stormarner Tageblatt, 12.09.2006 

.... In Veronika Waldner, Ortrud has a wonderful creator and boasted singer. For me the "Prima inter Pares" of a homogeneous ensemble, that is to be engaged hardly better also at the big houses: ...

Detlev Mücke, Nordelbische Kirchenzeitung, 10/06

... - one far too often doesn't find such a soprano also of big houses. This is regarded as Ortrud also for Veronika Waldner. She represented the schemer already with almost agonizing intensity, vocally her expression is going from the mild murmuring until the excess: Veronika Waldner showed why Ortrud is one of the most interesting women-figures, that Wagner shaped ...

Jürgen Feldhoff, Lübecker Nachrichten, 12.9.2006

...And there Ortrud, that captures in her entanglement, is sung expressive and played from Veronika Waldner, a wonderful performance!

Arndt Voß, Lübeckische Blätter, 23.9.2006

... As Ortrud, Veronika Waldner like a witch from "Macbeth" rages. The duets with Telramund and Elsa are treated pleasant chant-like, the big outbreaks with rousing force. 

Jürgen Kesting, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23.9.2006

The theater Lübeck grants "Lohengrin" to the inning-opening and lands scenically and chant-like with it on wonderful level. ... The Ortrud of Veronika Waldner masters the scene as soon as she performs. With a severe stage-presence blessed she is standing as well as the quiet sounds, with which she trickles poison into the ears of husband and Elsa, as also the dramatic outbreaks to the disposal, without there being audible borders. She still is superior to her Brangäne and her Oktavian in effect, that she was singing in the last years in Lübeck, with it.

 MK, Mittelloge.de

Firmly the voices... 

Veronika Waldner as Ortrud: a fury, whose Mezzo suddenly shows steel and out-hurls the heights of the infamy.

Günter Zschacke, Kieler Nachrichten, 12.9.2006