What The Critics Say – JENUFA at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin- March 6,2012 Berliner Zeitung Jennifer Larmores Kostelnicka remains the bleak, lonely center of the scene, while the subtle shadings of her voice resonate a severity that stems from a surfeit of feeling and pain. Süddeutsche Zeitung The director sees Kostelnicka as the center of the piece, with her repressed yearning for love that leads to murder. Jennifer Larmore is not the usual fury, but with exactly expressed body language and her dramatic blazing mezzo-soprano, she depicts the ardent struggle for liberation from mind-stifling dullness, from the prison of a rigid code of conduct. taruhan bolaFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Jennifer Larmore sings Kostelnicka not as an angular matriarch, but with the heartfelt lyricism of a loving mother whose care is at the same time aggressive and inhibited, cruelly suppressing her own desperate need to be loved. A role-portrait of the highest complexity. sbobet365 Die Welt Loy deviates from the beaten path in having an unusually youthful Kostelnicka in Jennifer Larmore. Not your familiar jangling jagged ex-Brünnhilde on the way to the retirement home for dramatic sopranos . Larmore sings lyrically and softly, compelling you to listen concentratedly. A stern but loving step-mother who goes to extremes for the happiness of her child. www.americannamedaycalendar.com HAMLET at the Metropolitan Opera -April, 2010 In Review of Books, Geoffrey Gordon Where the directors did bring things to life was in the more intimate confrontations of the piece, notably in the second-act trio of Claudius, Gertrude, and Hamlet. Here was an object lesson in how to transform Shakespearean tragedy into walloping domestic melodrama, with Jennifer Larmore the driving force in her intensified rendering of a fear-wracked Gertrude. Art Spoken & Reviews – Geoffrey O’Brian Jennifer Larmore, vocally and visually ravishing as Gertrude, Hamlet’s guilt-wracked mother, is simply magnificent. She exudes star quality every moment she is onstage. Every gesture, each facial expression, and every nuance of her burnished mezzo soprano, hits its target dead centre, constituting what is nothing short of a master class in great operatic performance. SUPERCONDUCTOR–A Classical Music Blog by Paul Pelkonan Jennifer Larmore, vocally and visually ravishing as Gertrude, Hamlet’s guilt-wracked mother, is simply magnificent. She exudes star quality every moment she is onstage. Every gesture, each facial expression, and every nuance of her burnished mezzo soprano, hits its target dead centre, constituting what is nothing short of a master class in great operatic performance.
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