Die Schöpfung / Berlin’s Konzerthaus

Indeed, if anything, it was the relative lightness of Pape’s voice that surprised: not exactly toned down, but with a keen sense of style, and splendid attention to the words. Their duetting as Adam and Eve proved a joy, rightly breathing the air of the opera house as much as the concert hall, the Konzerthaus’s staged past perhaps coming a little more to the fore of its historical palimpsest. Pape proved suavely seductive – the rolling of his ‘r’ in ‘Der Früchte Saft’ alone… – and Kleiter sweetly knowing in response (‘Der Blumen Duft’).”

... with a keen sense of style, and splendid attention to the words ... Pape proved suavely seductive – the rolling of his ‘r’ in ‘Der Früchte Saft’ alone ..."

– Mark Berry, Seen and Heard International