Lynette Alcántara: Reviews
Operatic roles
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Juliette/BBC Symphony Orchestra
"...and four members of the BBC Singers for their prowess... Lynette Alcántara..."
Andrew Porter, Opera
Handel- Berenice
“Alcántara made much of the hauntingly beautiful aria Si poco e forte.”
Winton Dean, Opera
“Lynette Alcántara’s agreeably resinous mezzo was heard to advantage as Berenice’s equally strong willed sister”
Rodney Milnes, The Times
Monteverdi- Orfeo
“the singing is excellent, particularly from Lynette Alcántara (doubling as the god of Music and a Messenger”
The Cambridge Drama Review
Mozart- Le Nozze di Figaro
“Cherubino (Lynette Alcántara) had the audience spellbound”
Cambridge Evening News
Dinah-Trouble in Tahiti
“Lynette Alcántara gave passionate and sensitive voice...”
Ian Brunskill, The Times
For Sir. John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Choir
“Ständchen was sung by Lynette Alcántara with warm and even tone”
Shane Fletcher, Early Music News
“Alcántara also excelled in Ständchen, her pure, light and wonderfully natural style...”
(Queen Elizabeth Hall, Gardiner)
Stephen Pettit, The Times
”In ‘Shallow Brown’, Gardiner uses the excellent Lynette Alcántara”
ABC Radio 24 Hours
Bach- St. Matthew Passion
"Lynette Alcántara brought genuine emotion to the alto solo"
Melbourne Recital Centre 2011
Chris Boyd, The Australian
“particularly memorable solo ‘Buss und Reu’- Lynette Alcántara again”
(Dunedin Consort, Sheldonian Theatre)
Giles Woodforde, The Oxford Times
“Inspired solo performance from mezzo Lynette Alcántara”
(Dunedin Consort, Aberdeen)
Alan Cooper, The Herald
“...matching the expressive phrasing of Lynette Alcántara, who was a late replacement for Catherine Wyn Rogers”
(The Bach Choir, Festival Hal)
The Church Times
Miscellaneous
“here were soloists to savour”
(King’s College Choir/Cleobury, Royal Festival Hall)
Geoff Brown, The Times
“Lynette Alcántara distinguished (herself) in the solo mezzo role”
(BBC Last Night of the Proms, Weir- Sanctus, from the Requiem of Reconciliation)
Barry Millington, The Times
