Heidi Melton sang Brünnhilde with the aplomb of a great Wagner heroine - not one that is singing it for the first time. One must travel very far to hear Wagner of this quality...
A fleet of extravagant women joins Goerke in this final installment... Melton holds her own in voice and presence, dazzling in a shade-throwing match with Brünnhilde that puts any Dallas catfight to shame...
This velvety sound box commanded our rapt attention until the end, throwing us up in the air with high emotion, and bringing us down with gentle lament...
Heidi Milton's brilliant Brünnhilde loses absolutely nothing in the last scene. It always has vocal intensity and is dynamically flexible, is never sharp in forte and is above all, easy to understand...
