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Critiques
What the music critics say...
“Very beautiful cantabile… entirely appropriate for this music, very beautifully sung. Great feeling for Elvira’s derangement! Brava! Wonderful singing!”
“Great variety of vocal colour and nuance.”
“Very fine performance of Bach singing – responsive to all the musical demands… technical mastery of this fiendish music... Brava!”
“Excellent control of the arching Straussian vocal line. Beautifully spun pianissimo… excellent build up to the climax… a very musical and dramatic performance. Brava!”
“’Mock Feast’ composed by Ingrid Heyn is a very clever song… dwells on (the) ability with the top of the voice… impressive performance with the accent on startling.”
“Just the right tonal quality for Handel… very beautiful… Beautiful ornamentation… very beautiful performance.”
“… obviously very much at home with this French art song music… floated the voice beautifully. Beautiful quality… delightful, idiomatic performance.”
“An accomplished performance as Lakmè… wonderful… brava! Brava!”
- William Bamford
“… a very excellent voice… dramatic appraisement is admirable…”
“… Ingrid Heyn as Giuditta made a stunning entry… maintained throughout… acting colouring the voice as there is a beauty… well sustained…”
“… I enjoyed the many vocal colourings… voice floats easily from one phrase to the next… involving face, body and technique....”
“A lovely clear soprano sound for this early music... and she looks quite lovely…”
- Margaret Nisbett
“… the French art song repertoire was treated very artistically… an excellence of French style…”
“… very attractive performance – everything in place. The moods were well captured and vocal quality was to be admired… a polished performance.”
“… portrayed the subtleties very well indeed… Lovely vocal tone coupled with clear diction… a very musical performance.”
“… a splendid costume and entrance by Ingrid Heyn… she moved with ease… a very good interpretation… good vocal quality throughout. Very entertaining… very good sense of theatre… Vocal quality was ringing and movements made this quite an enchanting, entertaining performance. Yes!”
“… atmospheric... intelligent, accurate and artistic work.”
- Kevin Casey
“... had the audience spellbound… beautiful work.”
“… very attractive voice… with excellent pitch and executed very proficiently…”
“Artistry in voice apparent from the beginning… lovely high notes… Beautiful work with cadenzas...”
- Ruth Guthrie
“… beautifully sustained singing…”
“Assured and accomplished singing with real character and variety.”
“… Excellent… good sense of style… ornamentation was used with much refinement and ease. Melismatic passages are most impressive… lovely lyrical singing.”
“A convincing and colourful interpretation of the Spanish canciones… the vocal difficulties managed without apparent effort.”
“… accomplished extemporisation – a convincing and colourful performance, characteristically full of interest.”
“… a total performance, visually and vocally! … a convincing understanding of Lehàr’s music – most impressive…”
“Sensitive, beautiful singing – well suited to the Italian ‘camera’…”
- David Galliver
“The plaintive character of the song was convincingly captured and beautifully sustained… a convincing performance and musically moving.”
“… a convincing theatrical characterisation. The coloratura was well controlled – precise attack of the notes and clarity in the tone…”
“… projected the meaning with refinement. A convincing performance in very good Lieder style – the “intimacy” was beautifully contained.”
“… very good sense of the Viennese operetta style… there is a bright resonant ring in the voice which is used to advantage… projected the meaning with vitality and energy… enjoyable performance both musically and visually.”
- Richard Morphew
“… performs this with great theatricality… appropriately dazzling… mood has the right element of craziness…”
“Sung with a fine feeling for the special cultural style of Spain… had a special quality of beauty… excellent and quite gripping…”
- Brian Hansford
“Impressive presentation…very commanding performance and impressive range.”
- Linda Thompson
“… created a most interesting atmosphere and gave a very convincing performance…”
“… An exciting performance as Violetta… good dramatic sense…very beautiful… lovely pianissimo singing… effectively executed coloratura…”
“… good strong characterisation of Cleopatra…”
- Peter Mander
“Wow! Some outfit! … Very attractive singing of Giuditta… Beautifully controlled entry… Wasn’t sure what was coming off next!!!”
- Noel Coslowski
“… good stage presence… great understanding… a real flair for this genre… What a performance!!!”
- Joanne Ryan-Neal
“… marvellous operatic contributions by Ingrid Heyn… the audience was spellbound into another world…”
- Hong Kong Tourist Association
“… some of the most ravishing singing possible…”
“Gorgeous blending of the two soprano voices – like velvet and silk.”
“Magical. The two singers work together to create something spellbinding.”
“Beautifully costumed and presented… this is a beautiful unity of voices… work well together… good dynamic variations… outstanding performance.”
- Peter Mander
“… balance of voices good… very appropriate sense of the style… blend lovely…”
- Joanne Ryan-Neal
“… lovely performance… the evening was just magic and the audience delighted… also enjoyed the choreography… enriched by the movements, costumes and simple props, all adding to the total experience that is the hallmark of Sounds Sublime.”
- Adrian Montana, National Trust of Australia
