Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima: Tormento '600

Monday, January 25, 2027 · Town Hall Seattle

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Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima: Tormento '600

Soprano Amanda Forsythe and the ensemble Opera Prima perform Tormento '600, a program of Italian baroque music featuring viola da gamba, on Monday, January 25 at Town Hall Seattle's Great Hall downtown. If you're drawn to early music and want to hear what seventeenth-century emotional excess sounds like in practiced hands, this is a specific reason to go.

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Amanda Forsythe
Read the Boston Globe's interview with Amanda Forsythe. Read James Strecker Reviews the Arts Interview with Amanda Forsythe "Forsythe’s voice is marvelous — clear, florid, and warm at the same time — but the context highlighted her fundamentally superb rhythm. In the faster of her six Handel arias, passagework darted with glinting precision, exhilaratingly even, with confidently audacious ornamentation.
Official site
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Aria: Senza un addio? (Amanda Forsythe)
Steffani: Duets of Love and Passion Album Trailer
Handel: As steals the morn (L'Allegro, HWV 55) Amanda Forsythe & Thomas Cooley, Voices of Music 4K
Opera Prima
Cristiano Contadin
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Town Hall Seattle

1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA · Capitol Hill, Seattle

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Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima: Tormento '600

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