Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs / Reviews

Hoy, Salomé representa como dice en cierto momento su protagonista, “el misterio del amor es más grande que el misterio de la muerte”, el personaje enigmático que a todas conquista, tanto en la escena teatral como en la operística, es el papel más codiciado para una soprano como Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, quien reconocida por su poderoso caudal y coloratura impactante es considerada una de las voces que dominan el dramatismo de la escena operística. Una artista consagrada con una larga trayectoria que la ha llevado a participar en infinidad de óperas como esta misma Salomé con la Den Norske Opera de Oslo

They made the double revelation of the evening: in the Nabucco presented by the Grand Theatre de Geneve, Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs and Roman Burdenko are simply extraordinary. The soprano audaciously establishes a hallucinatory Abigaille with a voice that is formidably of long extension, with audacious, aggressive high notes, and dark, meaty, and supple low notes. One could reproach her for a lack of nuances, and a preference for aggression, sometimes to the limits of good taste, but these excesses bring to the character a flamboyant charisma, an extraordinary quality, which glues one to her. On the other hand, her interpretation of the final aria, with her mezza voce singing, the likes of which one has not heard before, stand in musical relief against the rest of the evening, revealing the emotional fissures of the character in a very moving way.