Reviews

“The crown belongs to Heidi Melton as Brünnhilde, who never loses lyrical intensity. She creates every single phrase with luminosity and still has plenty of reserve for the big showdown at the end..."

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Brünnhilde in Die Walküre

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Melton has a voice with the power of a hurricane and a beautiful quality as well – and the ability to turn her thunderous volume down for heartrending delivery in quieter moments…

Recital with Kyle van Schoonhoven, Tenor

George London Foundation

It is easy to see why Melton is making waves. Isolde’s Narrative and Curse not only displayed her temperament, but again the especially strong and vibrant middle of her voice, molten metal turned to sound. She tossed out Isolde’s high notes with unbridled fury, never missing the mark…

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

New York Philharmonic

Singing with bloom and richness, the radiant soprano Heidi Melton was a tender, vulnerable Sieglinde...

Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

The crown belongs to Heidi Melton as Brünnhilde, who never loses lyrical intensity even in her most dramatic outbursts. With her warm, deep soprano, she creates every single phrase with luminosity and still has plenty of reserve for the big showdown at the end...

Brünnhilde in Siegfried

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Heidi Melton sang Brünnhilde with the aplomb of a great Wagner heroine - not one that is singing it for the first time. One must travel very far to hear Wagner of this quality...

Third Norn / Gutrune in Götterdämmerung

Houston Grand Opera

A fleet of extravagant women joins Goerke in this final installment... Melton holds her own in voice and presence, dazzling in a shade-throwing match with Brünnhilde that puts any Dallas catfight to shame...

Brünnhilde in Siegfried

Hong Kong Philharmonic

This velvety sound box commanded our rapt attention until the end, throwing us up in the air with high emotion, and bringing us down with gentle lament...

Mescalina in Le grand macabre

London Symphony Orchestra & Berlin Philharmonic

Heidi Melton made a memorable and deliciously wanton Mescalina...

Soloist in Wagner & Strauss Excerpts

New York Philharmonic

Her silky soprano, which you want to wrap around yourself like a scarf and rub your cheeks against all day...

Brünnhilde in Die Walküre

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Heidi Milton's brilliant Brünnhilde loses absolutely nothing in the last scene. It always has vocal intensity and is dynamically flexible, is never sharp in forte and is above all, easy to understand...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

Bayreuth

Melton is an easy flowing, clear as a bell Sieglinde, who can turn the intensity up so much that the entire audience forgets to breathe...

Isolde in Tristan and Isolde

English National Opera

Melton's voice is only comparable to the young prewar Kirsten Flagstad and that of Birgit Nilsson – she acts and negotiates the depths and the tops of this, the most difficult of the written tessituras for dramatic soprano...

Isolde in Tristan und Isolde

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Without blemish, flourishing in tone, dynamically dramatic outbursts, overpowering the orchestra with sonorous, stunning volume, coupled with dreamlike piani and in the love duet, she displayed an all-embracing, overwhelming vocal focus...

Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung Excerpts

Vienna Philharmonic

She sang with a ringing, vibrant tone, and a way of phrasing that was natural and ideal. Her characterization was full of human, rather than grandiose, dignity...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

Hong Kong Philharmonic

Melton was at ease, natural, enthralling: the type of dramatic soprano that Wagner aficionados will travel the world for...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre Act I

Montréal Symphony Orchestra

She obviously knows every corner of the character's mood – she sings with an impressive chest voice, but also a rare intelligence. This is a major incarnation, certainly one of the top three in the world currently.

Eglantine in Euryanthe

Oper Frankfurt

A rumbling, deep chest voice combined with a penetrating, impeccably produced high voice. There is not a sound produced that is not beautiful...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

Canadian Opera Company

Melton's crystalline soprano provided amazing intensity as Sieglinde...riveting...

Brünnhilde in Siegfried

Opéra National de Bordeaux

Luminous timbre with immediate seduction that pierces through the orchestral wall of sound...

Amelia in Un ballo in maschera

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Here heart, mind, an excellent technique and much feeling were combined in the best possible way. Just a dream...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

Palau de les Arts

Excellent, worthy of any major opera house in the world...

Elisabeth in Tannhäuser

BBC Proms

You could sense the house holding its breath each time this young American soprano delivered an aria, so perfect was her sound, and so refined her artistry...beautiful beyond words...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre Act I

Dallas Symphony

Thrilling, room-filling sounds, but also delicate pianissimos where called for...

Isolde and Sieglinde in Wagnerian Excerpts

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Magical and memorable... What made Melton's singing wonderful was not volume — though her voice is by no means small — but freshness and feeling. From the moment she opened her mouth, she was artlessly moving, actually communicating...

Amelia in Un ballo in maschera

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Someone who can sing Verdi with such lyricism and vocal harmony is practically a dream for Wagner and his Sieglinde...

Fata Morgana in The Love for Three Oranges

Deutsche Oper Berlin

A fine figure as Fata Morgana, especially in her tremulous rendition of the Act II curse...

Magna Peccatrix (Soprano 1) in Mahler Symphony No. 8

Magna Peccatrix in Mahler Symphony No. 8

Aspen Music Festival

Melton's muscular, cutting sound had a creamy sheen that made it rich and warm, ideal for the role of Magna Peccatrix...

Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Her articulation is perfect, her diction surprisingly good in the beautifully grounded parlando phrases and the dark-timbre of her soprano is radiantly warm...

Sieglinde in Die Walküre

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Melton sang an extraordinary Sieglinde. A rich voice with enormous bloom on top, she soared with the orchestra through Wagner’s biggest phrases and handled the difficult low tessitura of the role extremely well, despite the youth of the voice. A performer and singer of huge potential who is already at home in demanding repertoire...

Elsa in Lohengrin

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

A discovery with her dark, pleasant sound that defies classification. Her soprano blooms with ease and power of projection in all registers to the highest levels of emotion and intuition in her singing...

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Soloist in Berg Seven Early Songs

BBC Scottish Symphony

A breathtaking voice, whose seamless lyricism floated effortlessly over the molten restlessness of Berg's golden orchestrations...

Soprano Soloist in Verdi Requiem

San Francisco Opera

A big, gleaming and tonally resplendent performance... delivered with aching sweetness and backed by steely technical assurance....

Elisabeth in Tannhäuser

Opéra National de Bordeaux

A revelation: she possesses a powerful voice from one end of the tessitura to the other. She lets it flow as easily in a whisper – like her prayer, which was palpable and perfect – as in a more brilliant moment – like her luminous ‘Dich teure Halle’ which was exciting from the first note...