| About Gerald Finley |
| Montreal-born baritone Gerald Finley is well know for his performances in opera, especially in the operas of Mozart. |
| Article by Dominic McHugh, musicalcriticism.com, 28 April 2007 La Scene Musicale article, May 1998 GeraldFinley.info |
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| "Gerald Finley easily stole the show with his experienced, endearing Papageno. It's rare to find any singer who can clown so effortlessly, sing so beautifully and win over the audience so completely. But the Canadian baritone excelled in every aspect of the part. Finley is as definitive a Papageno as you will hear in any international theater today. It's great to have him back at Lyric." So wrote John von Rhein in a February 20, 2002, review of a Chicago performance of Die Zauberflöte. |
| "Santa Fe Opera this year devoted its ravishing outdoor views and still-new, hull-shaped auditorium to the American premiere of 'L'Amour de Loin.' For this spiritual story of a medieval troubadour and an Eastern beauty, Saariaho composed shimmering harmonies, choral and symphonic showers and highly distilled emotion, much of it derived from Amin Maalouf's limpid libretto. Gerald Finley, Monica Groop and, notably, Dawn Upshaw maintained the internal drama on a glistening pool of water, lighted boat and twinned spiral staircases."--Michael Barnes in the Austin American-Statesman. |
| "With his soft-grained baritone and gentle yet ardent presence, Gerald Finley was well cast as the troubadour," wrote John Allison in the Times of November 22, 2002, about a performance of Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin. |
| "Déjà titulaire du rôle [de Don Giovanni] lors de la reprise de 2001, Gerald Finley confirme tout le bien que l'on pense de lui : implication scénique complète (même pendant le repas, quel dévouement !), insolente santé vocale, timbre sombre et chaleureux, sans dureté, un grand Don Giovanni à l'évidence."--from a review by Philippe Herlin at concertonet.com of Don Giovanni (June 28, 2003) at the Opéra Bastille, Paris. |
| "Home for Finley is a village near Glyndebourne, the opera house with which he has been most closely associated. His wife is the mezzo-soprano Louise Winter, . . . and the couple have two sons."--from an article by Rupert Christiansen, 4 June 2005, at telegraph.co.uk. |
| DVD R. Strauss - Capriccio / Fleming, von Otter, Finley, Trost, Henschel, Hawlata, Dell'Oste, Banks, Tear, Schirmer, Paris Opera (2005) amazon.com |
| "[T]o me this new collection of 31 songs is definitive. Brilliantly sung by Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, it has become the gold standard by which all future recordings of these pieces will be measured. Finley meets the daunting vocal and dramatic challenges with total commitment and superb musicianship."--Joseph K. So at scena.org about the CD A Song - For Anything: Songs by Charles Ives amazon.com |
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Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood & Gerald Finley - Handel: Rinaldo - Complete Opera (Original 1711 Version) HWV7a (USA) 
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| October 29, 2007 Gerald Finley now has his own website, at geraldfinley.com. August 2007 All those who are interested in Gerald Finley will want to visit the new site geraldfinley.info. |
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