Jennifer Larmore’s risk-taking recital

By Jenny Camilleri, 01 October 2014

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Recital Hall, Amsterdam on 30 September 2014

Rossini, Les Soirées Musicales: La regata veneziana

Ravel, Shéhérazade

Nin y Castellanos, Chants d'Espagne

Guastavino, La rosa y el sauce (Silva)

Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)

Barber, Solitary Hotel, Op.41 no.4

Ives, Memories

Heggie, The Leather-Winged Bat

Herbert, The Enchantress: Art Is calling for me

Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo-soprano

Antoine Palloc, Piano

Travesía italiana de la mano de Sonya Yoncheva en el Real

David Santana Cañas, 7th July

Sonya Yoncheva nos plantea a través de romanzas y canciones un viaje por la geografía italiana en su recital en solitario en el Teatro Real de Madrid.

****1

Cardillac at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

James Imam, 12th May

The in-house orchestra played out of its skin under Fabio Luisi.

****1

Wozzeck in Geneva: grit and light

Elodie Olson-Coons, 2nd March

A strong, compelling staging – coherent in aesthetic and philosophy, if a little restrained in performance.

****1

A gripping Carmélites at Caramoor

Ako Imamura, 25th July

A group of excellent singers and the Orchestra of St Luke's led by Will Crutchfield succeeded in presenting a moving concert performance of Poulenc's gut-wrenching opera.

****1

Paper Doll: Kentridge screens an elusive Lulu

Jenny Camilleri, 1st June

The child-woman Lulu is a reflective receptacle for desire in Dutch National Opera’s extraordinary filmic production.

***11

The Met in HD, Hamlet, 2010

Nahoko Gotoh, 27th March

Read our review of Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leise's production of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet in its 2010 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.

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Jenny Camilleri

After completing her postgraduate studies in psychology at the University of Toronto, Jenny moved to Amsterdam, where she enjoys singing in amateur choirs. She loves all genres of classical vocal music, especially nineteenth and early twentieth century Italian and German opera and art songs.

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