Hints and tips:
...Willard White’s troubled Tirésias was skilfully offset by Christopher Purves’s devious Créon, while Graham Clark made something memorable out of the small but decisive interventions of the Shepherd....
...Corrine Winters’ Teresa tugs the heart with her luscious soprano, Paula Murrihy contributes a lusty Ascanio and Willard White is the scene-stealing Pope. A worthwhile effort, then, warts and all....
...René Pape brings crisp, conversational tone to Gurnemanz’s monologues, while veterans Willard White (Klingsor) and Robert Lloyd (Titurel) dominate their scenes....
...If she walks down the street she is walking to sleep with Ken Willard, if she eats her food it is to give her enough strength to sleep with Ken Willard....
...Willard White’s Christ oozed dignity. Samuel Boden and Joshua Ellicott were the excellent Evangelists. www.vocalfutures.org...
...Anna Christy made a sparkling Tytania, Willard White a majestic Bottom. Benedict Nelson and Tamara Gura were the standout lovers....
...Willard White, in the Joseph/Herod role, supplied gravitas – and a first-night audience thrilled to a contemporary masterwork....
...Scots-born choreographer Michael Clark returns to the festival for the first time in 20 years and there will be recitals by the singers Bryn Terfel and Sir Willard White....
...At one point the face of Wotan (the lethargic Willard White) is superimposed on that of Alberich (Dale Duesing, vocally weak) – an allusion to their “alter ego” relationship....
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