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"The American soprano Elizabeth Hagedorn understood how to integrate herself into the big picture without vanity, especially through her pleasantly pliable, occasionally somewhat clouded soprano, which never tends to shrill or even harshly exaggerated eruptions."
"The Leonore of Elizabeth Hagedorn impresses through dramatic sound, changes registers highly expressively, communicates over certain intonation the ambivalent emotional world of a woman fighting against all odds."
“Nocturne with a powerful woman”
A woman breaks into this pandemonium, merciless toward herself and others. The Leonore of Elizabeth Hagedorn, a soprano with lyrical power and dramatic furore, at maximum voltage from the very first scene, had nothing in common with an “ Engel im rosigen Duft”. The climax of her infernal vocal ride from desperation to hope became the challenging aria in the first act. Spiritual agony flows from every pore, when the singer nearly gives all she has. Pure emotion. Hagedorn hold this level of internal tension through to the finale.
