REVIEWS
Michael Hendrick, in a debut, who, in the circumstances did remarkably well. So, it was his lucky day!
Richard Strauss’ Die Ägyptische Helena
The chance of portraying Richard Strauss’ Helen...
Despite Strauss’s often-cited appeals to keep the orchestration transparent, conductor Fabio Luisi favors the Elektra approach. Such bombast may be suited to Voigt’s huge high fortissimos,...
Michael Hendrick acquitted himself honorably… in this punishingly high role.
By HEIDI WALESON
New York
The Metropolitan Opera mounted Strauss’s “Die Ägyptische Helena”...
Michael Hendrick replaced him and can be commended for providing quite a bit more voice.
The Met’s 2007 staging of “Die Agyptische Helena” (The Egyptian Helen) is only its second...
Newcomer Michael Hendrick assaulted the stratosphere with steely stamina.
Until Thursday, Die Ägyptische Helena – Richard Strauss’s lush, rapturous and clumsy distortion of Stesichorus and Euripides –...
He was replaced by Michael Hendrick, who had sung the dress rehearsal on Monday and was all set to go. Making your Met debut in such tense circumstances has to be intimidating. Still, Mr. Hendrick...
Michael Hendrick has a huge yet expressive voice. He pumped incredible volume and energy into the second act.
March 16 (Bloomberg) — I had high hopes for an opera prominently featuring a singing...
The point that I was not too bothered by the… (replacement) in the second act by the very good Michael Hendrick (nasal voice, baritonal, more in line with Ben Heppner).
It was hard...
