Brünnhilde in Die Walküre
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Read MoreMelton 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…
Sieglinde in Die Walküre
New York Philharmonic
Singing with bloom and richness, the radiant soprano Heidi Melton was a tender, vulnerable Sieglinde...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Mescalina in Le grand macabre
London Symphony Orchestra & Berlin Philharmonic
Heidi Melton made a memorable and deliciously wanton Mescalina...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Sieglinde in Die Walküre
Canadian Opera Company
Melton's crystalline soprano provided amazing intensity as Sieglinde...riveting...Read More
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...Read More
Sieglinde in Die Walküre
Palau de les Arts
Excellent, worthy of any major opera house in the world...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More