RIGOLETTO – Gilda

…Another special discovery is the highly talented Austrian coloratura soprano Beate Ritter as the sensitive Gilda, endowed with fine coloratura…
…In Gilda’s aria “Caro nome”, Beate Ritter succeeds excellently in showing how a young girl loses herself in dreamy reflections on the name of her beloved…
… His outcry “Ah, the curse” dissolves eerily into a harmonic half-closure from E flat minor to D flat minor. The way Beate Ritter as Gilda transforms minor into major is also extremely touching. However, nowhere in the production is the mask-like aspect of the characters exaggerated…”

Online Merker, 28.11., Alexander Walther