Vanessa Waldhart

In Vanessa Waldhart as Poppea, she has a formidable rival who can certainly stand up to the Empress, but also uses her youth as a weapon. Waldhart's radiant soprano voice captivates.

"My musical highlight, however, was definitely Vanessa Waldhart as Poppea: She delivered extremely virtuoso coloraturas (fast sequences of notes). She embellished them very creatively and also extremely ambitiously: They were musical champagne pearls – absolutely great!"

The discovery of the opening night, however, is Vanessa Waldhart as the Queen of the Night, who, with her fine lyrical interpretation does not play the role of an avenging angel, made people sit up and take notice with her nuanced and absolutely precise coloratura and spherical intonation. A great performance!

„Vanessa Waldhart’s coloraturas were so relaxed and so easy, the only thing I would have missed was for her to turn to the audience and say «nothing easier, I can do it all» - well, that was really great. The pianissimo that she offered in the Queen of the Night’s first aria was so unearthly beautiful, there is no other way to express it...”

...Her pearly-crystal clear coloraturas, her cooing eroticism in voice and play, her lyrical emphasis and her ludically easy high notes on point are breathtakingly well sung ...