Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Read MoreMelton has a voice with the power of a hurricane and a beautiful quality as well – and the ability to turn her thunderous volume down for heartrending delivery in quieter moments…
Read MoreMelton has a voice with the power of a hurricane and a beautiful quality as well – and the ability to turn her thunderous volume down for heartrending delivery in quieter moments…
The crown belongs to Heidi Melton as Brünnhilde, who never loses lyrical intensity even in her most dramatic outbursts. With her warm, deep soprano, she creates every single phrase with luminosity and still has plenty of reserve for the big showdown at the end...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Heidi Melton made a memorable and deliciously wanton Mescalina...Read More
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...Read More
She sang with a ringing, vibrant tone, and a way of phrasing that was natural and ideal. Her characterization was full of human, rather than grandiose, dignity...Read More
Luminous timbre with immediate seduction that pierces through the orchestral wall of sound...Read More