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What the critics say: Opera Magazine: November and December 2012
Don Pasquale – Glyndebourne on Tour – George Hall
“…Jonathan Veira’s Pasquale was a complex, touching creation, delivered with a full complement of old buffo skills newly and convincingly minted. …”
La Bohème – Glyndebourne on Tour – Hugh Canning
“… Nicholas Lester’s Schaunard made a strong impression. …”
Rinaldo – Glyndebourne on Tour – Roger Parker
“…The principals, though, were a quartet of Handelian heroes and heroines: … Ana Maria Labin (Armida) who looked tremendous and sang with both agility and great musicianship…”
Street Scene – The Opera Group at The Young Vic – Amanda Holloway
“… Mrs Maurannt (a magnificent anguished Elena Ferrari)…”
Too Hot to Handel – Armonico Consort – The Warwick Arts Centre
Roderic Dunnett
“…Yvette Bonner, who was freed from little-girl roles to flower as a sophisticated , gorgeously full-bodied, engaging soprano. …”
BBC2, Sunday 19 June at 5.30 pm
Turn of the Screw - Arcola Theatre – Yehuda Shapiro
“… Sara Gonzalez Saavedra, a recent member of the National Opera Studio, who brought a distinctively Latin warmth and generosity to Mrs Grose. …”
Madam Butterfly – Mid Wales Opera Tour – Rian Evans
“ … Meeta Raval portrayed a Butterfly driven by her perceptions, distorted though they be: Raval took everything in her considerable vocal stride, articulating the words of Amanda Holden’s sensitive translation with the utmost clarity. By the final scene, the sense of a creature whose metamorphosis is fated and irreversible…”
Meeta Raval won a place in the Final of the BBC Cardiff singer of the World Competition
Congratulations to English Soprano MEETA RAVAL who won a place in the Final of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2011.
