Parsifal / Parsifal Opera Frankfurt
OPERA NOW - Phill Ward - Sept/Oct 2006
Parsifal was sung with considerable beauty and tireless energy by Stuart Skelton
BLOOMBERG - Shirley Apthorp - 26/04/2006
In the title role, tenor Stuart Skelton is about as good as Parsifal gets, with beautifully modulated phrasing, effortless power, crystal-clear diction and tender top-notes. Add to that a tall, solid frame and you have a Wagnerian hero.
DER TAGESSPIEGEL - Christine Lemke-Matwey - 25/04/2006
Stuart Skelton, a well conditioned Parsifal with a secure top.
FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE - Michael Delith - 25/04/06
In the title role was the Australian Stuart Skelton, who had already shone in the 2004 concert performances, impressing with his lightly baritonal colour that gave the title character real virility.
DER NEUE MERKER - Marc Rohde - 23/04/2006
The stars of the evening were clearly the singers. Internationaly celebrated Heldentenor Stuart Skelton gives a powerful Parsifal with a beautiful voice.
DIE WELT - Uwe Wittstock - 25/04/2006
The Australian Stuart Skelton played the beginning of his Parsifal with an Obelix-like simpleness and later as a triumphant Siegfried.
OFFENBACH POST - Klaus Ackermann - 25/04/2006
..whether bumbling, ignorant, thoughtful or with greatest compassion: Stuart Skelton's tenor covers the many nuances between lyric and drammatically cored and brings it all together into one entire line.
SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG - Wolfgang Schreiber - 25/04/2006
Stuart Skelton sings the role with a both vocally and drammatically impressive Heldentenor that also includes softly expressivene abilities.
FRAENKISCHER TAG - Monika Beer - 25/04/2006
Stuart Skelton is a powerful and convincingly compassionate Parsifal.
RHEIN-NECKAR ZEITUNG - Bernd Zegowitz - 25/04.2006
Wonderful both were the Amfortas of Alexander Marco-Buhrmester and the gleaming Parsifal of Stuart Skelton
GIESSENER ALLGEMEINE - Anita Kolbus - 28/04/2006
The Australian Tenor Stuart Skelton sang his Parsifal with absolute bravura, with immensely musical pathos and a flexible voice.
MANNHEIMER MORGEN - Marion Blinkfeuer - 26/04/2006
The singers are, as seems to be more and more common at Opera Frankfurt, absolutely fabulously cast. Stuart Skelton approaches his golden-haired Parsifal as a man. Above all, his theatrical interpretation of Parsifal is moving and stands entirely within the sense of the psychologically demystifying direction of Christoph Nel.
MUNDO CLASSICO - Jose Luis Ruano - May 2006
The Parsifal of Stuart Skelton is sung lyrically with excellent intonation. His is a youthful sounding voice full of vitality, that seems perfectly suited to the role of Parsifal.
Parsifal / Parsifal Opera Frankfurt - Concert
1. FRANKFURT NEUE PRESSE - Rudolph Jöckle - 02/03/2004
....Also amongst the soloists were three Parsifal-debutantes. Stuart Skelton, who has already been celebrated in the role of Peter Grimes in Frankfurt, sang the title role with his lightly baritonal-timbred, clear tenor, complete and without any pathos and with a security of intonation, which would do some Bayreuth-colleagues good.
2. OFFENBACH-POST - Klaus Ackermann - 02/03/2004
....Stuart Skelton is a Parsifal, whose inner transformation is contemplatively totally fulfilled. And he has a powerful, round tenor, which points clearly to other Wagner heroes.
3. FRAENKISCHER TAG - Monika Beer - 04/03/2004
....Stuart Skelton's first Parsifal is also very promising. The Australian tenor has a powerful, supple voice, which masters the technical challenges of the role effortlessly. There is also no doubt that with every further performance it will become more and more impressive.
4. WIESBADENER KURIER - Axel Zibulski - 02/03/2004
....Singing in place of the announced Gregory Frank, Matii Salminen makes the greatest impression as Gurnemanz in the premiere. The part has perhaps been heard more sonorously and balsamicly, however, Salminen created a sensation with an unsurpassed penetration and articulation of the text, with an intense vocal and even reflective presence: believable and carrying in even the softest tones. The young Australian tenor, Stuart Skelton, who can be seen as Parsifal for the first time in Frankfurt, also shared these attributes. He also showed he has a perfectly radiant voice with heroic tenor potential.
5. GIESSENER ALLGEMEINE - Sascha Jouini - 02/03/2004
....In the second act, Stuart Skelton was able to prove himself in the role of Parsifal as a moving, expressive tenor. He masterfully offered the passage where the pains of Amfortas are awoken in Parsifal , with great vehemence and brute force.
6. MUSIC WEB - Simon Morgan - 04/03/2004
....it was the singers who really made the evening. Eike Wilm Schulte's (Amfortas) heroic Baritone was always pleasing and supple. Supple, too, was Stuart Skelton's youthful Parsifal. His is not the ugly barking voice that so frequently passes as "Heldentenor" nowadays, but welll-rounded and always secure in intonation, from a bronze-timbred lower register to a radiant, metallic upper register. Skelton first came to people's attention as Lohengrin and Erik during Daniel Barenboim's and Harry Kupfer's 10-opera Wagner marathon at the Staatsoper Berlin, a couple of years ago. Thankfully, he is now a full-time ensemble member in Frankfurt where he has already sung Peter Grimes and the Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
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