„If you’ve seen a great Parsifal this lifetime, Rene Pape was probably the Gurnemanz, and if he’s ever given a slack performance, I haven’t heard about it. Still, the sharp, multifaceted character Tcherniakov draws out of him makes his earlier portrayals look like sketches for this canvas in Rembrandt oils. There’s singing that will bowl you over. Pape’s expressive range is complete, his timing incisive and alarmingly immediate. Tcherniakov cleverly turns the first act’s long Grail narrative into a slide show Gurnemaz conducts, complete with pointer, but an idea that could have gone terribly wrong is saved by using historical depictions of the Grail legend and early Parsifal productions, Pape a holy Scheherazade talking-story.“<\/p>\n
–<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Pfaff, The Bay Area Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n „Of course a mature singer like Rene Pape has a majestic grip on his role, no matter what, and his monologue of a sleepless night, pondering his loveless marriage and the limits of his power, brought the house down.“<\/p>\n – Renate Stendhal,\u00a0Huffington Post<\/strong><\/p>\n Verdi\u2019s \u201cDon Carlo,\u201d in a serviceable production directed by Emilio Sagi and designed by Zack Brown, was all about the cast. The standout was Ren\u00e9 Pape\u2019s riveting King Philip II, the embodiment of power until he crumbled in his late-night reflection that his wife doesn\u2019t love him.“<\/p>\n –\u00a0Heidi Waleson,\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n Equally compelling was Pape\u2019s ability to contrast Philip\u2019s autocratic authority in the first two acts of the opera with his solitary confrontation with the consequences of his actions in the fourth act.“<\/p>\n –\u00a0Stephen Smoliar,\u00a0Examiner.com<\/strong><\/p>\n The great bass Ren\u00e9 Pape was a regally stirring Philip, showing poise ruling almighty Spain, but also fretting over his marriage to Elizabeth, knowing full well that her heart belongs to his son. Pape\u2019s stentorian voice resonated throughout, especially in the Act 4 aria \u201cElla giammai m\u2019amo,\u201d in which he is as much a man with feelings as Europe\u2019s most powerful monarch.“<\/p>\n –\u00a0James Ambroff-Tahan,\u00a0San Francisco Examiner<\/strong><\/p>\n „The cast’s other powerhouse was Ren\u00e9 Pape as Philip. Singing with dark, magisterial tone, the German bass made the king a commanding, intriguingly complex character . . .“<\/p>\n –\u00a0Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News<\/strong><\/p>\n „Yet perhaps the afternoon\u2019s most commanding contribution came from bass Ren\u00e9 Pape as King Philip II, Carlo\u2019s father and rival in both love and war. With his gleaming, polished sound and impeccably focused phrasing, Pape created a character at once formidable and sympathetic; his long Act 4 soliloquy, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra\u2019s great principal cellist David Kadarauch, was a virtuoso display of fierce pathos.“<\/p>\n –\u00a0Joshua Kosman,\u00a0SFGate<\/strong><\/p>\n „Ren\u00e9 Pape is completely believable as King Philip II, his rich tones sounded mature . . .“<\/p>\n –\u00a0The Opera Tattler<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" „If you’ve seen a great Parsifal this lifetime, Rene Pape was probably the Gurnemanz, and if he’s ever given a slack performance, I haven’t heard about it. Still, the sharp, multifaceted character Tcherniakov draws out of him makes his earlier portrayals look like sketches for this canvas in Rembrandt oils. There’s singing that will bowl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acclaim","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}