Reviews are in for Gabriela Scherer’s Bayreuth debut as Gutrune in “Götterdämmerung”:

“Another wonderfully cast couple are Gunther and Gutrune: acting with visibly great joy and class, Gabriela Scherer makes her Bayreuth debut as the lady of the Gibichungenhalle. Seldomly has one heard such a balanced and yet not shrill or forced Gutrune, singing with such text comprehensibility.”
Michael Lehnert, Das Opernglas

“Newcomer Gabriela Scherer also asserts herself on stage. Her voice is clear, her high notes interesting, and her effort to work on vocal colors remarkable, but she strikes by the way she is in command of the stage space, the way she moves, sways and plays the coquette. A singer to follow”
Guy Cherqui, Wanderer

“Gabriela Scherer spiced up the doll image of the character with soprano excitement”
Thomas Heinold, Nürnberger Nachrichten & Nürnberger Zeitung

“Vocally concise and with extremely agile acting skills, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and the triumphant Gabriela Scherer turn Gunther and Gutrune into a wonderfully exaggerated parvenu couple.”
Joachim Lange, Nordbayerischer Kurier

“Gabriela Scherer lends Gutrune a still girlish agility with a mature, but not too staid tone for this role and contributes a suitably snotty and cheeky pronunciation in the first two acts.”
Lynn Sophie Guldin, Das Opernmagazin

“Catherine Foster’s Brünnhilde radiates and shines as she did two days before, her high notes are indeed breathtaking. But her competitor Gutrune is no less impressive, Gabriela Scherer is no modest girl, but a real, very sensually acting woman.”
Dr. Andreas Ströbl, Klassik Begeistert

“The singing was largely strong… .
We had captivating theatrical performances from Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Gabriela Scherer as Gunther and Gutrune, the latter clearly revelling in the outlandish characterisation.”
Mike Smith, Opera Scene

“Gabriela Scherer’s open-hearted, repentant Gutrune”
Fomalhaut

And the top-class cast continued: Georg Zeppenfeld as Hunding, John Daszak as Loge, Mirko Roschkowski as Froh, Christa Mayer as Fricka and Waltraute, Mika Kares as Hunding, Ya-Chung Huang as Mime, Okka von der Damerau as Erda, Nicolas Brownlee as the phenomenal Donner, Christina Nilsson as Freia, Gabriela Scherer as Gutrune, Michael Kupfer-Radecky as Gunther, Jens-Erik Assbo as Fasolt and Tobias Kehrer as Fafner, they all make this Ring a vocal feast. ”
Alain Steffen, Pizzicato / Luxemburger Tageblatt

[Photo: Enrico Newrath / Bayreuther Festspiele]