1.   Based on the idea that opposites attract, Slap Happy Humphrey alternates beautiful female singing and gentle acoustic music with gruesome, grinding electric-guitar attacks.

2.   Birgitta Svenden, as Erda, defined the role with her beautiful singing.

3.   Opera has always been about beautiful singing anyway, not about sociological correctness.

4.   The sweetness of the voice that makes her singing beautiful is indivisible from an underlying ferocity of will.

5.   This was beautiful singing.

6.   Roechmann is light as a cloud, joining with Shtoda in some beautiful singing as the young lovers.