REVIEWS
… un remarquable Bacchus (l’AmĂ©ricain Michael Hendrick.)
Mise en scène avec sobriĂ©tĂ© par Caetano Vilela, nous en avons d’abord retenu la qualitĂ© de la distribuition, avec une mention...
A remarkable Bacchus (American Michael Hendrick)“
Directed by Caetano Vilela with sobriety, we first selected the quality of the distribution, with a notation for excellent supporting roles, all-Brazilian, a valiant Ariadne (Virginia Correa Dupuy Argentina, Eliane...
… Michael Hendrick threw himself at the demanding tenor role of the Stranger.
During the twenties, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a big name in European music, with his opera Die tote Stadt a major...
Michael Hendrick’s valiant Stranger came good where it really counted, when he implausibly came back to life and blasted the King off his throne.
At first it looked as if the fortunes of Erich Korngold’s...
At the opposite extreme was a young and immensely promising heldentenor in Michael Hendrick. He rode the often inhuman tessitura of the Stranger with courage and belief, singing and phrasing with...
Michael Hendrick, a lyric rather than a heroic tenor, delivered a sensitive account of the Stranger’s role, coming into his own when the orchestra was more restrained in the final act.
THE word had got...
Strauss’s strenuous tenor parts such as Bacchus, the Kaiser, and Apollo, also came to mind when considering the part of the Stranger. Its one of those long and high-lying parts that requires its singer...
Michael Hendrick performed Bacchus with a noble bearing and a trumpet tone. There are good tenors out there after all.
The Montréal Gazette
