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"Elizabeth Hagedorn as Giorgetta impresses with richly faceted singing and her acting proficiency: great passion and great love, dancingly flirtatiously or lamenting, everything is convincing."
"Elizabeth Hagedorn fits into this concept as if made-to-order. Earlier a lyric Suor Angelica, she has ripened into a spinto Giorgetta, who connects both pieces in Mainz through an hallucination. "
"Giorgetta (Elizabeth Hagedorn, is gripping in her attempt to break out of her present life), following the death of her lover, slips indistinguishably into the flock of Novices."
"Thus, the music becomes the primary carrier of the drama, which is not disturbing when Catherine Rückwardt leads the Mainz orchestra with such extraordinary attentivness, and Elizabeth Hagedorn coaxes so many facets out of the role of Giorgetta. Acting with no holds barred, she thus moves believably beween a silent longing for home and a hopeless attempt to escape the monotony of marriage and daily life through the love of Luigi. "
"A rare event: first-class singers, a motivated ensemble, interesting staging and sets, and an excellent orchestral performance ... In Nicklisch's view of this dark drama, Elizabeth Hagedorn frees the role of the attributes of a tart and logically develops a Giorgetta motivated by longing, fear, and love. "
