His portrayal of this traumatised figure (complete with crutch, due to an injury sustained shortly before the premiere) is highly convincing, and his character's inner turmoil is mastered with vocal brilliance.

Saccà's tenor is profoundly multi-faceted, rebellious and yet highly expressive: a strong character.

With his strikingly full voice and expressive range of colours, tenor Roberto Saccà imparts to the title role of Idomeneo the ambivalence of an inwardly-tortured power seeker, whose ambition and tender paternal love pose an insoluble contradiction. 

 

...Robert Saccà, who masters radiantly and effortlessly the role of Walther von Stolzing...