Récital de Sonya Yoncheva

By Clémence Faber, 08 February 2015

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“Son timbre charnu, sa maîtrise du chiaroscuro et l’assurance de sa ligne font merveille”

Reviewed at Salle Gaveau, Paris on 6 February 2015

Works by Schumann C.

Works by Viardot-García

Schumann, Lieder: Selection

Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano

Federico Brunello, Piano

Singers bring passion and excitement to Met’s Andrea Chénier revival

Susan Stempleski, 24th November

The Metropolitan Opera kicks off this season’s revival of Umberto Giordano’s tempestuous melodrama with standout performances from a resplendent cast.

****1

Guilty pleasures: Yoncheva stars in a new Fedora at the Met

Kevin W Ng, 4th January

There are plenty of vocal thrills in Sir David McVicar's new production of Giordano's revenge thriller at the Metropolitan Opera.

****1

Yoncheva rocks Liverpool with rare Martucci

Mark Pullinger, 15th May

Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes a superb Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra debut with Giuseppe Martucci's La canzone dei ricordi (The Song of Remembrance).

****1

Musical excellence mired by stale production in the Met's Don Carlos

Ako Imamura, 28th February

The Metropolitan Opera performs the original French version of Don Carlos for the first time with a distinguished ensemble of soloists, but the static production offers no new insights into the depth of Verdi's masterpiece.

****1

Floria Tosca plays the diva in Robert Carsen's Zurich staging

Laura Servidei, 6th October

The Opernhaus Zürich revives Robert Carsen’s 1990 production, with a strong cast led by Sonya Yoncheva and Joseph Calleja.

***11

Quiet tragedy: Robert Wilson's Otello in Baden-Baden

Ako Imamura, 16th April

Zubin Mehta conducts Verdi's Otello in an iconic Robert Wilson production of stylized theater where less is more. The effect was mesmerizing.

****1

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Clémence Faber

Clémence Faber, mezzo-soprano, est née à Paris en 1991. Elle se forme à la Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra de Paris, entre 2003 et 2010, et poursuit le chant au conservatoire Gabriel Fauré (Paris) dans la classe de Yann Toussaint, en parallèle de ses études à Sciences Po Paris. Elle se perfectionne actuellement au Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK), dans la classe de Wilma MacDougall.

Sonya Yoncheva célèbre Clara Schumann et Pauline Viardot