“Hubert Francis was glorious & stole the stage as a charasmatic, curly-headed Loge with flying goggles slung around his neck.”

Opera Now Spring 2024
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Second (since he is the only major character who doesn’t appear in any of the later music dramas but only in Rheingold) that impersonation of magic, Loge. At once the engineer of events and the detached onlooker, the character of Loge was brilliantly sung and acted by the tenor Hubert Francis. He holds the characters on stage spell-bound, and he did just the same with the audience. Handling vocal writing that is even by Wagner’s standards extremely difficult with precision cloaked in casualness, his voice integrated with the orchestra in a way I have hardly ever heard the part rendered. And I could hear every word.”

AustralianStage.com.au, Nicholas Routley
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“But most of all we wallow in the wickedness of Warwick Fyfe’s Alberich and Hubert Francis’ Loge – a Willy Wonka-meets-Edward Scissorhands confection with his wild hair and fireproof goggles. …All the singers are in fine voice, though the evening belongs to Fyfe and Francis. The success of Das Rheingold rests on the shoulders of Alberich and Loge, and both singers give world-class performances in these roles.”

Limelight Magazine, Jansson J. Antmann
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Particularly outstanding was Hubert Francis as a wily, conniving Loge, his flexible tenor and lithe physical demeanour conveying much of the character’s combination of ambivalence and opportunism.”

Australian Book Review, Michael Halliwell
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Hubert Francis was an audience favourite as Loge in Das Rheingold, his flexible tenor voice well able to project and portray Loge’s sinewy character as he acted as Wotan’s fixer.”

theoperacritic.com, Michael Sinclair
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Hubert Francis’ vocally animated, cunningly diplomatic Loge is an utter joy to watch and listen to all the way to his final, somewhat prescient remarks.”

operatoday.com, Paul Selar
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Bleibt der Loge von Hubert Francis, und der wird hier bewusst als letzter genannt. Denn er ist der einzige unter allen, dem eine intensive, mimisch authentische und – was die Bewegung betrifft – Darstellung seiner Rolle gewährt wurde, oder hat er sie selbst einfach so dargestellt?! Immer wenn Francis in Aktion war, gab es direkten Bezug auf die jeweils angesprochene Problematik und was sie für die Figuren zu bedeuten hatte. Ein sehr starker und überzeugender Loge, zudem mit einem geschmeidigen Tenor ausgestattet – auch im weißen Mantel.”

opernmagazin.de, Dr Klaus Billand
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Die wahren Größen des Abends und dementsprechend auch beim Applaus die Publikumslieblinge aber waren ein brilliant gesungener, maliziöser und quicklebendiger Loge Hubert Francis und der ebenso schauspielerisch wie sängerisch wirklich perfekte Alberich von Warwick Fyfe. Beiden gelang auch – im diesbezüglich ohnedies durch die Bank guten Ensemble – die beste Artikulation. …Schließlich 10 Minuten Jubel, besonders für Alberich und Loge.”

onlinemerker.com, Petra & Helmut Huber
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Hubert Francis as the half-divine Loge is also funny and quite the heavenly court jester at times.”

InReview.com.au, Phil Brown
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Hubert Francis’ Loge was a smooth operator who sang tirelessly through the evening.”

Backtrack.com, David Larkin
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023

“Hubert Francis’ expertly crafted Loge, with pilot goggles and spiky hair, made the quick-witted and all-seeing god of fire a fine foil for the dwarf. ”

ArtsHub.com.au, Suzannah Conway
LOGE, DAS RHEINGOLD | OPERA AUSTRALIA, 2023