PRESS
PRESS"Harmer has a big, billowing, shiny soprano that seems ideally suited to the bold heroines of the German Romantic repertory." "Wendy Bryn Harmer was first-rate as Freia.... She showed a beautiful voice that cuts---cuts without being strident." "...lovely and vocally excellent..." "[Harmer's] bright, clear, metallic soprano expressed the character’s hysteria without ever becoming shrill: a Brunnhilde-in-waiting, I’d say, and not bad looking in a short skirt either." "...womanly and strong-voiced..." "Wendy Bryn Harmer [has a] bright, pealing soprano...." "...the best singing of the evening came from [Harmer] ... clear voiced and passionate..." "... a bright-voiced soprano...." "Wendy Bryn Harmer again gave a notable performance in terms of both vocal power and richness of sound...." "Wendy Bryn Harmer [wields an] ample, warm sound and majestic sense of what she is singing: when she began to sing I heard murmurs of delight around me: Wagnerites are ever eager for new voices that display the amplitude needed for the Master's vocal demands." "Harmer's voice [has] hugeness and majesty..., but with an extra fullness and warmth that made it more engaging. This also is a large voice in the bloom of youth, and Harmer showed she could raise the roof with one line... and then sing marvelously well in duet.... Harmer also showed an exceptional technical command throughout her register, which was untroubled and gigantic at the top, and crystal clear and centered at the very bottom. This is a singer of great natural gifts who has disciplined it with excellent training that she has applied with diligence. You don’t get that kind of finish throughout the voice without working hard at it." "Wendy Bryn Harmer had it all: enormous range, fortitude and bewitching command.... Harmer conjured gravity, resignation and depth of feeling that were spellbinding." “... a big voice in [Wendy Bryn Harmer] whose tonal quality and clarity throughout was superlative, whose acting was on mark, and who displayed solid stage presences.... Ms. Harmer has a magnificent voice and thrilled the audience ... every time she was called upon to sing.” |
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ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
"Sound Bites: Wendy Bryn Harmer"-Opera News (April 2011)
"Soprano, a Sox fan, takes the lead in 'Clemenza'"-Boston Globe (19 Oct. 2006)
"Diva in Development: Wendy Bryn Harmer on Music Academy of the West"-Classical Singer Magazine (Jan. 2004)