Tenor Andreas Schager
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Caecilie" and "Allersseelen," to help caress her vocal chops for the more difficult music to come. Not that either of these is the equivalent of
"Twinkle, twinkle little star": She brought power and joy to her performances. Later in the concert, her virtuosity was in full view in her duet with van den Heever in Lohengrin's
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Euch Luften...Entweihte Gotter
," as a brilliant Ortrud, with her mane of graying hair, to her colleague's glowing, confused Elsa and as the melting Dyer's Wife in Strauss's FRAU.
I evidently haven't heard enough of Volle on stage at the Met, because I was bowled over by his performances here: in duet with van den Heever's Senta in DIE FLIENGENDE HOLLANDER's