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Hendrick’s portrayal of Susannah’s protective, whiskey-swilling elder brother Sam Polk grew like a volatile powder keg ready to blow

WINNIPEG SOPRANO SHINES IN DARK OPERA ‘SUSANNAH’ One might be forgiven a little déjà vu seeing American tenor Michael Robert Hendrick clothed in seemingly the same denim overalls he wore as Lennie during Manitoba Opera’s 2016 production of Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. Hendrick’s portrayal of Susannah’s protective, whiskey-swilling elder brother Sam Polk grew like a […]

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🇺🇸 Love for Three Oranges: A SERIES OF PUNS AND WITTY DETAILS

The role of the Prince was performed by the American tenor Michael Robert Hendrick, the only international guest, who thrilled us not only with his correct interpretation and vision of a spoiled hypochondriac and yet pompous Prince, but also with his excellent pronunciation of Croatian language, on which the opera is performed. by Zrinka Matić Klasika.hr

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🇺🇸 Veteran maestro Nikša Baresa directs a stupendous Gurre-Lieder in Zagreb

Michael Robert Hendrick sang the Bacchus-esque role of Waldemar with a strong upper register and admirable dramatic insight…a heartfelt and powerful performance. Lyrical sections such as “Mit Toves Stimme flüstert der Wald” were especially well phrased. The terrifying monologue when Waldemar confronts God as an equal was electrifying. A clarion top B flat on “Hofnarrn tragen”

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🇺🇸 Audiences will remember ‘Songs of Gurre’, a feat by Maestro Bareza (Včernji list)

HISTORICAL EVENT IN LISINSKI The singers who stood out especially with their singing craft and dramatically suggestive interpretation of the text, were the german tenor guest Michael Robert Hendrick and our opera champion, mezzosoprano Dubravka Šeparović Mušović. Complete review will be translated to English. http://www.vecernji.hr/glazba/publika-ce-pamtiti-pjesme-iz-gurrea-podvig-maestra-bareze-1116547 Here is the review in Croatian: – Nikada mi se nije bilo

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Manitoba Opera: Of Mice and Men

Marking his MO debut, Michael Robert Hendrick’s deeply compassionate portrayal of the hulking Lennie, described in today’s kinder, gentler terms as a person labeled with an intellectual disability, perfectly balanced his character’s raw emotional vulnerability with volatile, brute strength. Hendrick resisted all temptation to fall into easy stereotypes, while also nailing Floyd’s wide dissonant leaps

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🇺🇸 Salome: Awakening Sexuality that Goes Beyond Corpses

Salome is an adolescent girl showing her erotic charisma to stepfather Herod (excellent with cutting character tenor Michael Hendrick) specifically in the veil dance, not only to the entire court. The opera “Salome” uses guest conductors who apply for the position of general music director in Wuppertal. The quality of a conductor should quickly become apparent from

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🇺🇸 Wuppertal, German – Salome: Strong Voices, Strong Images

The Herodes and Herodias team was also excellent. Michael Hendrick’s tenor’s gamut ranges from the buffoonesque to the fully powerful and dramatic. “Salome.” Musical drama by Richard Strauss in one act based on Oscar Wilde’s poem of the same name.\ Musical direction: Ari Rasilainen – Production and Stage Director: Michiel Dijkema – Costumes: Tatjana Ivschina – Lights:

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🇺🇸 SALOME: Opening Night Is a Success

Michael Hendrick with his radiant tenor plays Herod’s instinctive desire and, later, the horror of Salome’s handling of Johanaan’s head, superbly. The new production of Richard Strauss’ work hits the nerve of the Wuppertal opera audience. Wuppertal. It is a cold, neutral, concave surface on which the musical drama “Salome” by Richard Strauss takes place. There

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🇺🇸 Salome: Wuppertal

Michael Hendrick and Dubravka Musovic shown as the feuding couple Herod and Herodias. After the ambitious and therefore controversial Parsifal, the Wuppertal audience celebrated the new “Salome” with unanimous applause. The audience not only got their money’s worth in terms of the musical implementation, the directing team also received a lot of applause at the premiere.

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