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"Singing in French, Dawn Upshaw offers the Château de L'âme cycle of five love songs drawn from ancient Hindu and Egyptian texts. Upshaw is fantastic, her characteristic freshness and gorgeous vibrato providing contrast to the otherworldly nature of these songs," wrote Jason Serinus in Seattle Weekly, reviewing a recording of works of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. |
Dawn Upshaw Sings Vernon Duke is "a really lovely exploration" of the work of Vernon Duke, says Bill at mermaniac.com, a Show Tunes Weblog. |
Dawn Upshaw's compact disc Angels Hide Their Faces was one of the best recital recordings of 2001 according to Opera News of January 2002. |
As quoted in the Boston Herald of May 13, 2003, Dawn Upshaw said of Icelandic pop star Bjork, "There's nothing like her, no one who does what she does. She even has her own way of singing I find incredibly fascinating and incredibly risky and open." In the same article, critic T. J. Medrek quoted composer Osvaldo Golijov as to what makes Dawn Upsahw unique: "There are so many things, but motly I think what people feel--and I feel it too, it doesn't matter that I'm a composer--is that there's truth in her singing. Everything she sings is sacred." |
The DVD version of the staged Glyndebourne production (1996) of Handel's Theodora was released in June 2004 at amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Cast List Dawn Upshaw ... Theodora David Daniels ... Didymus Frode Olsen ... Valens Richard Croft ... Septimius Lorraine Hunt ... Irene |
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