Isabel Leonard debuts as Charlotte in Massenet’s ‘Werther’
“… Isabel Leonard is beautiful Charlotte. Indeed, in some ways she surpasses by digging into the text, in the bending of Massenet tortuous melodies, in exploding clear treble proiettatissimi the torment of the character, while showing off a full and secure medium and low register … which avoids the hollowness of a character out of place. She is in short, a fragile Lotte and a very human one that is before us in the third act, the supreme moment of the evening.”
{… Isabel Leonard è splendida Charlotte. Anzi, per certi versi lo supera in scavo della parola, in tornitura del melodismo tortuoso di Massenet, nel far esplodere in chiari proiettatissimi acuti il tormento del personaggio, sfoggiando nel contempo un medium pieno e sicuro e un registro … ma che evita al personaggio cavernosità fuori luogo. È insomma una Lotte fragile e umanissima quella che si presenta davanti a noi al terzo atto, momento supremo della serata.}
Lorenzo Baldini – GBOpera
“Isabel Leonard was a charming Charlotte, her darkly colored mezzo more at ease in the increasingly dramatic music of the third and fourth acts.”
Silvia Luraghi – The Opera Critic


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