Simon Wilding came over very strongly as her father the Commendatore, singing an excellent bass.
Simon Wilding's deeply evil Hunding is so well sung that one feels sad that he loses so much of his music in the cuts
Simon Wilding came over very strongly as her father the Commendatore, singing an excellent bass.
Simon Wilding's deeply evil Hunding is so well sung that one feels sad that he loses so much of his music in the cuts
Simon Wilding’s unsettling, convincing Hunding uses his huge voice as a weapon, to brilliant (near comic) effect.
Simon wilding, seen as fafner in Longborough's production Siegfried last June, was a moving Marke who captured the dual blow that the king feels in discovering Tristan is (supposedly) disloyal, and realising that he is nothing without the hero's support.
Simon Wilding was an imposing Fafner and Wilding was an implacable Hunding, very much the dramatic lynchpin of the evening
Simon Wilding’s jet-black Hunding proved the perfect foil to Volsung Lenz, another considered and highly dramatic portrayal.
Simon Wilding with his ever-present but vocally reticent Lane/Merriman, the servant seemingly getting his ‘revenge’ with a last plate-smashing spree to close the work.