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“…a passionate, soul-stirring performance
by Helen Donath…at an age when most sopranos are winding down careers, or should be, she still sings with the ease
and ardor of a woman half her age. Hers wasn’t a long-breathed approach to the Strauss songs, but one whose every line
pulsed with emotion. From wine-rich chest voice to great surges of tone to breathtaking waftings on high, this was amazing
vocalism.” The Dallas Morning News, November
4, 2005 |
Haydn's Die Schoepfung with Helmuth Rilling at Festival
Miami:
"Haydn's solo vocal writing requires tremendous flexbility. After more than three decades,
soprano Helen Donath's gleaming timbre and flawless coloratura remain miraculous. Her exquisite spinning of a vocal
line is a model of great artistry.” The South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, November 12, 2007 |
“The outstanding Zerlina of Helen Donath--celebrating the 45th
anniversary of her stage debut!--had great, infectious fun, singing with more freshness, emotion and individuality than her
much younger colleagues.” -Die Welt,
February 9, 2007
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Texas-born soprano HELEN DONATH recently returned to North
America for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Dallas Symphony under
Philippe Jordan and Claus Peter Flor, respectively. In addition she performed Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate
with the National Philharmonic, Britten’s War Requiem with the Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänska and Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony with the Brooklyn Philharmonic/Michael Christie. In Europe she has enjoyed great success as Despina
in Così fan tutte (Vienna and Salzburg), and Aethra in Strauss’ Die Agyptische Helena (Salzburg).
A Kammersängerin (highest honor a singer can earn in Germany or Austria) represented on over 100 recordings, she
has sung principal roles at the Metropolitan, Florida Grand, Seattle, Washington and Atlanta Operas; Michigan Opera Theatre;
and Opera Pacific. Her roles include Agathe in Der Freischűtz, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro,
the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. She has given acclaimed recitals in New York
(Alice Tully Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Miami, Washington, D.C., San Diego and Toronto, and sung with the Montreal
Symphony under Charles Dutoit and Zdenek Macal, James Judd and the Florida Philharmonic, Jesus Lopez-Cobos and the Cincinnati
Symphony, James Levine and the Chicago Symphony, Leonard Slatkin and the Boston Symphony, Marek Janowski and the Minnesota
Orchestra and John De Main and the Madison Symphony. Festival appearances include Ravinia, Bard, Chautauqua, and New York’s
“Mostly Mozart.”
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