Rienzi / Rienzi Staatstheater Stuttgart
1. STUTTGARTER NACHRICHTEN 09/07/2002 -Annette Eckerle
... Stuart Skelton sings Rienzi, embodying the role musically so intensively, as many others try but do not achieve even in sections. He possesses both lyric mellifluousness as well as huge fortissimo attack. At the very end of the great prayer aria he lets it all flow together again, showing Rienzi 's grim and determined belief to be able to right the world as the lone and last of the tribunes.
2. DER NEUE MERKER - Udo Klebes
... the decisive weight lies with the title hero, who was filled by Stuart Skelton (role debut) with the necessary charismatic individuality. A distinctive tenor, balanced in all registers, maintaining constant quality in the declamatory as well as the melodic sections and never showing any discolouration or warping, he arranged the role very cleverly and even after the previously required effort does not perform a steely executed prayer, but rather a prayer which bears witness to intelligence and musicality, which swings from a carrying piano to exalted power. The audience felt inspired to kneel before this singer! The entire texturally differentiated and technically securely founded performance of Skelton enthralled the audience with the combination of spiritualisation and ardour.
3. ESSLINGER ZEITUNG 09/07/2002 - Martin Mezger
... The Australian tenor, Stuart Skelton, exudes pure vocal balm, proving the highest artistic talent in vocalisation as well as timbre, as if the previous efforts, which he mastered so wonderfully, had not existed at all. He is nothing less than a singing sensation.
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