Leading mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly is used to defying expectations, writes Andrew Clark
January 13, 2012
November 1, 2011
November 1, 2011
“One of today's most intelligent musical mezzo-sopranos, Sarah Connolly is in gloriously fluent and expressive voice for an imaginatively programmed selection of mid 20th-century English song.”–Rupert Christiansen, telegraph.co.uk, 4 stars, about My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs
October 27, 2011
October 27, 2011
Vancouver Sun review of Vancouver, British Columbia, recital by Simon Keenlyside, baritone, and Malcolm Martineau, piano
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“If I never hear another concert I will die a contented music lover,
having heard the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis under Colin Davis and Britten’s
War Requiem under Gianandrea Noseda last weekend,” writes Sedgwick Clark
for Musical America .
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Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, on Mariusz Kwiecien in Met’s Don Giovanni
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October 24, 2011
Missa Solemnis
I attended a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on Friday October 21, 2011. Outstanding performances from the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Sir Colin Davis, and alto soloist Sarah Connolly. The other three vocal soloists were OK but not especially interesting.
A performance by the same artists at the Royal Albert Hall in London last month can be seen and heard at youtube. Thanks to melodiaavis at Twitter for letting me know.
September 29, 2011
My true love hath my heart
New from Chandos, already released in the United Kingdom and soon to be released in the United States, is an album of English songs, My True Love Hath My Heart, performed by Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano, and Malcolm Martineau, piano.
May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
“Interview: Gerald Finley making history at Glyndebourne…,” MusicalCriticism.com
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“On 26th June 2011 Glyndebourne and the Guardian will join forces to stream the last night of its sell-out production Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg live online via guardian.co.uk and glyndebourne.com. This live streaming will be the first of its kind undertaken by any UK opera house or UK newspaper. The streaming will be available for seven days after the initial broadcast and will be free of charge to viewers. On 21st August Glyndebourne and the Guardian will stream the acclaimed production of The Turn of the Screw live from the Festival.”–glyndebourne.com
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Sarah Connolly will be Octavian in performances of Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera, beginning 28 January 2012, reports theartsdesk.com.
May 16, 2011
May 16, 2011
Tim Ashley of the Guardian gives five stars to the CD of Loewe songs and ballads by Florian Boesch and Roger Vignoles.
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The Collegiate Chorale’s January performances of Weill’s Knickerbocker Holiday, with Victor Garber and Kelli O’Hara, were recorded by Ghostlight Records. A CD is scheduled for release on June 28, 2011, at amazon.com.
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Sarah Connolly singing Peter Lieberson’s 5 “Neruda Songs” now on YouTube
April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
Two more of the songs that Sarah Connolly performed at a recital at Wigmore Hall, London, 8 April 2010. Eugene Asti was the pianist at the Wigmore Hall recital. She also performed these songs at a recital in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York on 14 April 2011.
April 18, 2011
April 18, 2011
Superb British mezzo-soprano, Sarah Connolly, accompanied by pianist Eugene Asti, sings “By a Bierside” composed by Ivor Gurney to words by the poet John Masefield. This song was written by Gurney in 1916 in the trenches of WWI.
From a recital at Wigmore Hall, London, 8 April 2010.
Superb British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, accompanied by pianist Eugene Asti, sings “Sleep” composed by Ivor Gurney to words by John Fletcher. This song forms part of the set “Five Elizabethan Songs” written by Gurney in 1913.
From a recital at Wigmore Hall, London, 8 April 2010.
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Renaud Machart, writing for Le Monde, says that he heard what may be, in
terms of conducting, the most beautiful Pelléas et Mélisande in memory.
He goes on to say that “le Pelléas de Simon Keenlyside est sonore,
testostéroné, et peut se jouer du puissant flot orchestral
derrière lui.”
April 17, 2011
April 17, 2011
Vocal Supporter reviews Sarah Connolly’s recent recital at Alice Tully Hall, New York.
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ConcertoNet.com reviews a recent concert performance of Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris with Natalie Dessay, Simon Keenlyisde, and Laurent Naouri.
