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“Finally, one can't help but understand Wotan […] yielding to the sublime, sparkling bronze singing of Melissa Zgouridi's Erda, an ideally Wagnerian young mezzo, who passionately binds us to her every word ("I know all that was, all that will be"). Coming from the Urwala and messenger of Eternity, her mysterious warning has the superior accentuations of the great tragediennes of the...
"Finally, Melissa Zgouridi's Flosshilde - who also sings Erda this evening - with her broad, velvety, powerful timbre, stands out for the clarity of her vowels and the length of her phrases. In the final scene, the lyricism of her tessitura, as well as the constancy of her projection and the intensity of her vibrato in the upper register, are particularly noteworthy”....