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"Wendy Bryn Harmer had it all: enormous range, fortitude and bewitching command. She played the part to the hilt, not as the Amazon you'd expect, but as a spoiled Princess, primped up and pouting her way through post-adolescence. As good as Harmer was at playing a brat (for much of time all one could wish for her was a friendly pistol-whipping), it was her entrance into womanhood—as Vitellia discovers for the first time in her life that she has a conscience—that proved the most resonant moment of the evening. As she sang 'Non più di fiori,' Harmer conjured gravity, resignation and depth of feeling that were spellbinding. [I]t was great fun to watch Harmer exercise her feminine wiles…." | | -Opera News (Jan. 2007) |
“[We were given] a big voice in the person of soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer, singing the role of Vitellia whose tonal quality and clarity throughout was superlative, whose acting was on mark, and who displayed solid stage presences, whether being petulant, angry, sullen, smitten or just plain conniving, as she often was. Ms. Harmer has a magnificent voice and thrilled the audience...every time she was called upon to sing.” | | -OperaOnline (20 Oct. 2006) | "[The] cast of superb singers who could also act [included] uninhibited, power-voiced, theatrically vivid soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer as the manipulative, vengeful would-be empress [Vitellia]."
| | -The Phoenix (24 Oct. 2006) | "Soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer filled the opera's most flamboyant role, the scheming Vitellia, with a big, round, even sound that frequently thrilled. …
[S]he played that role to perfection."
| | -Boston Herald (22 Oct. 2006) | "Wendy Bryn Harmer, in the role of Mimi..., steals the show with
her gorgeous vocals."
| | -Deseret Morning News (18 July 2006) | "Wendy [Bryn] Harmer...will be making plenty of splashes in the near future. Harmer had a great ability to use dymanics [sic] to infuse interest in her
excellent soprano."
| | -Utah Statesman (4 Aug. 2006) | "[An] utterly glowing performance[] by soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer…." | | -San Francisco Classical Voice (11 July 2004) | "Soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer [had a voice that was] creamy rich…." | | -Kansas City Star (20 Nov. 2006) |
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"Soprano, a Sox fan, takes the lead in 'Clemenza'"-Boston Globe (19 Oct. 2006) |
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"Diva in Development: Wendy Bryn Harmer on Music Academy of the West"-Classical Singer Magazine (Jan. 2004) |
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