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Mona Lisa in Meiningen | |
"Elizabeth Hagedorn pulls out all the eccentric stops to depict the Florentinian beauty as a kind of Renaissance Tosca. The radience of her gleaming soprano voice reminds one a bit of Catherina Ligendza."
"In Elizabeth Hagedorn, the stage director has an absolutely top-class Mona Fiordalisa at his disposal. She not only negotiates this difficult role with the highest vocal niveau, but also fills it with acting perfection. She lives this multi-layered person, fills her with soul in every reaction, and masters the dramatic scenes with impeccable singing, even the highest tones sounding beautiful and never forced. A truly ideal casting, to which one can only congratulate the house."
"His wife Fiordalisa was portrayed by Elizabeth Hagedorn as helpless and indecisive, outwardly paralyzed to cover her injured feelings. Her round, large soprano voice possessed fullness and élan."
"Vocally, this production is at a satisfyingly high level. In the title role, Elizabeth Hagedorn can demonstrate the range of her jugendlich-dramatic soprano; she convinces with passionate devotion and cool unapproachability, finds for passion, longing, and desire a graphically expressive tone color."
"Even in the sheer inhuman raging of Mona Lisa, compared to which the scenes of Clytemnestra or Elektra seem almost moderate singing, the in every respect excellent Elizabeth Hagedorn remains within the boundaries of good sound. Her vocal and scenic realisation of the fury Mona Lisa: unsurpassable, deeply impressive."
"In their central love duet, Hans-George Priese as Giovanni and Elizabeth Hagedorn as Mona Lisa approach in their powerful development the duets in Tristan und Isolde, which von Schillings seems to be answering in this composition with a delayed echo."
