Press kit, Amanda Forsythe · Press kit, official use
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. (Forsythe’s coloratura provocations in “Tornami a vagheggiar” dropped with timing so exquisite it verged on comic.) But even in slower numbers — “Geloso tormento” (with a plangent oboe obbligato by Debra Nagy), or the moody “Amarti si vorrei,” or especially “Piangerò,” Cleopatra in the depths of despair — Forsythe stretched time without sacrificing temporal structure, the sense of underlying implacability against which the music could expressively push. A two-part encore summed up the evening: Forsythe’s poignant but impeccably controlled rendition of Henry Purcell’s “If love’s a sweet passion” led directly into a thumping, bustling, rather insistent performance of an O’Carolan jig. It was competing forms of stardom: charismatic poise and assertive likability."
