Boston Baroque and Boston Conservatory at Berklee Present a Master Class with Amanda Forsythe, Soprano
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Division—in partnership with Boston Baroque—proudly presents Grammy-winning American soprano Amanda Forsythe for a master class.
Forsythe has been warmly praised for her performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is a regular soloist with the highly acclaimed baroque ensembles Les Talens Lyriques, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, Opera Prima, Pacific Musicworks, Early Music Vancouver, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Forsythe made her American stage debut with the Boston Early Music Festival, where her many roles have included Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea; Eolie in Circé (Desmarets); Angelica in Orlando generoso (Campra); Isabelle in Le carnaval de Venise (Campra); Serpina in La serva padrona; and Edilia in Almira, Königin von Castilien, for which she has received rave reviews. With Boston Baroque she has sung Poppea in Agrippina, Melissa in Amadigi, and the title roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Partenope. With Seattle Opera, she has sung Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and with Opera Philadelphia she recently made her role début as Handel’s Semele.
She made her European operatic debut in the role of Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, subsequently returning to perform Rosalia in L’equivoco stravagante, and Jemmy in Guillaume Tell, which were both released on DVD. At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, she has performed Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff, Manto in Niobe, Amour in Orphée, and most recently, Marzelline in Fidelio. Other European engagements include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky’s production at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Komische Oper in Berlin.
She has performed under the baton of Giovanni Antonini, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Matthew Halls, Thomas Hengelbrock, Nicholas Kraemer, Bernard Labadie, Susanna Mälkki, Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Sir Antonio Pappano, Martin Pearlman, Christophe Rousset, Jeannette Sorrell, Stephen Stubbs, and Jaap van Zweden. She has premiered opera productions by Gilbert Blin, Robert Carsen, Tobias Kratzer, and Graham Vick.