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...Wladyslaw Grochowski, founder of the Arche hotel group, offered to put up 5,000 people for free in his hotels and earmarked 5mn zlotys ($1.1mn) for the plan....
...There was sturdy support from Terje Stensvold’s imposing Wanderer, Eric Halfvarson’s Fafner, Johannes Martin Kränzle’s word-perfect Alberich, Anna Larsson as a rich-voiced Erda and Gerd Grochowski’s Gunther...
...Gerd Grochowski’s bass-baritone yields a wily Jaroslav Prus. Thomas Glenn offers a wonderfully fussy law clerk....
...overall: Simon O’Neill a clarion-clear Florestan, John Tomlinson a Rocco of huge presence and Adriana Kucerova a vocally pure Marzelline, with decent support coming from Stephan Rügamer’s Jaquino, Gerd Grochowski...
...Gerd Grochowski is excellent as the spineless Gunther, rolling out lieder singer effects and the Rhine maidens blend beautifully....
...Gerd Grochowski’s Telramund is serviceable if hardly threatening, and Petra Lang’s Ortrud creates a vividly declaimed portrait of ambition and spite....
...Though both Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne and Gerd Grochowski as Kurwenal exuded sympathy, she sounded weak and he sounded strained....
...Matti Salminen, now nearing 70, still has plenty of voice for King Mark; and Gerd Grochowski’s Kurwenal and Ryland Davies’s Shepherd provide vivid support....
...John Mark Ainsley’s half-deranged Skuratov is pitiable yet compelling, Stefan Margita’s Luka seedy yet intriguing, Gerd Grochowski makes the murderous Shishkov almost likeable, Olaf Bär brings gentle strength...
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