Category: Reviews

...Composer Lee Kesselman introduced his piece No Longer Pray with lyrics by Chelan Harkin. Soprano Michelle Areyzaga sang it with an intensity that the composer intended. Kesselman described No Longer [...]

SANTA CRUZ, California—Last weekend, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music opened its 63rd season. Reaching that number with such an uncompromising mission is an achievement in itself. So is the [...]

“Soprano Michelle Areyzaga took a light-hearted approach to ‘Spring,’ infusing it with easy flowing diction and warm fun. She was restrained in ‘Sleep’ and was given particularly sympathetic accompaniment by [...]

“Michelle Areyzaga showcased very challenging 20th century repertoire and a true mastery of the craft. […] Ms Areyzaga has chosen to offer a variety of art songs from the 20th [...]

Saturday’s performance was paced by the stentorian yet lyrical vocalizations of bass-baritone Kevin Deas, notably in Whitman’s “Reconciliation,” the chorus’s finely detailed treatment of the elaborate closing biblical sequence and the orchestra and chorus at full tilt in Whitman’s “Beat! beat! drums.”

Soprano Michelle Areyzaga brought restrained passion, and welcome gradations of expression, in her role as a lone, pleading voice in recurring recitations of the “Dona nobis pacem” chant.

“Soprano Michelle Areyzaga and pianist Jamie Shaak deliver performances of stunning beauty, clarity, and eloquence. Ms. Areyzaga’s voice has a luminous radiance from top to bottom, and she deploys that [...]

Chamber Music Society pays tribute to Schubert “…The second half was lighter with sensational singing from soprano Michelle Areyzaga in Andre Previn’s “Vocalise for Soprano, Cello and Piano” (1995) and [...]

Chamber Music Society delivers with style “…Things brightened up after intermission. Andre Previn’s “Vocalise” was a patchwork of luscious bits performed by soprano Michelle Areyzaga, cellist David Finckel and pianist [...]

Fine Hyde Park performance of rarely heard music “The concert opened with Giocomo Meyerbeer’s Hirtenlied, written for soprano, clarinet and piano. Areyzaga performed this idyllic song about a shepherd high [...]

Soprano Areyzaga warms up a rainy night in Chicago Ensemble opener “No chamber series in town roves as widely nor as adventurously, and so it proved again with Tuesday evening’s [...]