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Hagen in Gotterdammerung, Longborough Festival, 2012

GOTTERDAMMERUNG by Wagner;
Longborough Festival Opera;
15 July 2012;

STUART PENDRED as Hagen;

ANTHONY NEGUS – Conductor;
ALAN PRIVETT – Director;
KJELL TORRISET – Designer;
BEN ORMEROD – Lighting Designer;

Credit: © CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL;

“Pendred shone vocally, and as a gifted actor, in the show’s two comic cameo roles Benoît and Alcindoro.”
(Chris Gray, Oxford Mail)

“Stuart Pendred, you were superb. Every word clearly heard. Both acting and singing were impressive – lovely lower notes. Your duets with Lucy Peacock were a joy. Watch out Bryn, there’s a new kid on the block.”
(Philip Barnett, Watford Observer Review)

“As Tristan’s faithful retainer, Kurwenal, Stuart Pendred gave the best performance I have heard from him.”
(Seen and Heard International / Jim Pritchard)

“Stuart Pendred… comes into his own strongly and touchingly in Act Three.”
(Classicalsource / Peter Reed)

“Stuart Pendred is excellent as Kurwenal, revealing both strength and a certain warmth to his sound.”
(MusicOMH / Sam Smith)

“Stuart Pendred rose up before me- a powerful, formidable, tortured Sweeney, his pain was palpable throughout as he led us on his horrific journey.”
(Teresa Howard)

“The Minnesingers were excellent, notably Stuart Pendred as a bold and well-focused Biterolf…”
(Mark Ronan)

“Stuart Pendred’s Hagen was a suitably dark and malevolent presence, key to the slow unravelling of the whole doomed edifice.”
(The Guardian / Rian Evans)

“a palpably nasty Hagen who looks as though he’s strayed out of an episode of Wallander”
(The Telegraph / Rupert Christiansen)

“Stuart Pendred is a husky-edged, snakish Hagen”
(The Independent / Jessica Duchen)

“Stuart Pendred’s Kurwenal, touching and troubled and Harriet Williams’s glowing Brangäne enriched these supporting roles.”
(The Guardian / Fiona Maddocks)

“Stuart Pendred and Harriet Williams as ever-faithful and vocally secure companions Kurwenal and Brangäne… this was a super cast.”
(Mark Ronan Theatre Reviews)