British Soprano Sarah Gilford, a finalist of the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, made her debut at Staatsoper Hamburg last season.
This season Sarah performs Juliette in Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bergen Nasjonale Opera in a new production staged by Calixto Bieito. She will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony. alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican as well as with the Festival Philharmonie Westfalen. In the new year, Sarah will join the Armenian National Symphony Orchestra in a Christmas Gala. In Munich, she will sing Mahler's 2nd Symphony.
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SOPHIE, 2023
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
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"British soprano and Cardiff Singer of the World finalist Sarah Gilford makes her debut here as Sophie, a delightfully sweet soprano who positively enchants and entrances. Her entreaties to Werther in Act two, ‘Du gai soleil, plein de flamme’ were utterly endearing, delivered with an almost ‘Snow-White’ charm and sweetness, whilst still managing to avoid saccharinity. Her gentleness and joie de vivre are almost palpable and one is left wondering how even Werther, entrenched as he is in his misery, could decline a dance with this beauty.
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Likewise, her interactions with Charlotte in Act three after the latter has finished reading the letters from Werther, her compassion and concern for her older sister is tangible and she sings here with wonderful poignancy."
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OPERAWIRE
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© Bill Cooper
