Derek Welton’s physically imposing, vocally booming Uncle Bonze, delivering his curse with terrifying menace, clearly has major star potential.
01 August 2012Hugh Canning
Opera Magazine
Derek Welton’s tremendous Bonze stood out. This young Australian has star potential, and you have to wonder why the Royal Opera cast such a feeble Italian as Monterone in their recent Rigoletto with a young singer like this around (he has already made a big impression at the Guildhall School and with British Youth Opera, which aren’t exactly a million miles from Covent Garden)....