Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Aria: Senza un addio?
Steffani Duets of Love and Passion with the Boston Early Music Festival - Winner of the Diapason d'Or, January 2018
Serpina in La Serva Padron, Boston Early Music Festival, 2017. Photo credit: Kathy Wittman
"Soprano Amanda Forsythe was dynamic and self-possessed in some of the showpiece arias heard on her new solo Handel album with the group. Her staccato...
Photo Credit: Arielle Doneson
Amour in Gluck's Orphée (with Juan Diego Florez) at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

"...Amanda Forsythe owned the role of Poppea, exuding feistiness, style, and gleaming tone."

Jeremy Eichler/The Boston Globe

"...Forsythe's agile soprano, with crystalline staccati, was perfect for portraying Poppea's lighthearted and empty-headed gaiety. But as the opera progresses and Poppea experiences betrayal, she matures, and Forsythe's performance deepens."

Angelo Mao/Boston Classical Review

"...Poppea was Amanda Forsythe (another favorite guest artist of Boston Baroque), who was just delicious in a shocking-pink gown with a few too many necklaces. I had enjoyed Hansen and Forsythe two weeks ago at a program of Monteverdi (sponsored by Boston Early Music Festival); they have fabulous comic chemistry."

Susan Miron/The Boston Musical Intelligencer

"...As Poppea, the material girl in love with jewels and pearls, who sets the lust of half the male members of cast in overdrive, Amanda Forsythe played the role to comic perfection, shooting glances, taking poses, endlessly primping, all the while producing the sweet, seamless soprano she is known for."

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