(Reviews of performance of Dice Thrown,
New York City Opera VOX program)
"Most of the 2008 VOX operas featured highly experienced singers
such as James Bobick as the lone singer in Soldier Songs, Lauren Flanigan
as Lady Macbeth, Melissa Fogarty as the sole
singer in Dice Thrown, Beth Griffith as Zarafa, the giraffe, and Emily Pulley
as Eleni. These singers in particular delivered notably outstanding performances
and were backed up by satisfyingly rich orchestral performances."
-- Karren LaLonde Alenier, Scene4 Magazine (6/08)
For full review, click here.
"John King's Dice Thrown...was more like
a revelation. In a performance by the stunningly accurate soprano Melissa
Fogarty, the piece became a dazzling coloratura solo of compelling dramatic
urgency...Ms. Fogarty star[ted] creating a character, not just a "part."
A musical country you could call Mallarmé Land cohered into being:
We could picture its mountains, its cities, its fretting housewives, its squabbling
politicians."
--Russell Platt, The New York Observer (5/08)
Vox Photos by Carol Rosegg
(Review of performance in La Serva Padrona, Seattle Baroque Orchestra)
"Melissa Fogarty sang and acted the role of the capricious and determined
Serpina with aplomb. She has a bright, attractive soprano and an ample tecnhique,
all of which she applied skillfully to the part."
--R.M. Campell, Seattle Post-Intellegencer (4/08)
(Blog mention for King Arthur at NYCO)
"young and lovely soprano Melissa Fogarty, a last
minute replacement scored a triumph, singing with delectable and highly skillful
coloratura and is surely on her way to a successful career."
--James Camner, author of "How to Enjoy Opera" (Simon and Schuster),
former reviewer for Fanfare Magazine and Opera News contributor. From his
blog, Broadway Bridge & Tunnel Test (3/08)
(Review of performance of David Del Tredici's Dracula)
"Sexier still...the soprano Melissa Fogarty narrated and sang with
consummate focus while acting with delirious abandon"
--Steve Smith, The New York Times (3/07) (For full review and picture, click
here.)
(Recording Review: Handel Scorned & Betrayed)
"Fogarty is a singer of quality, clean, accurate, and stylish."
--John W. Barker, American Record Guide (5/06)
(Recording Review: Agar e Ismaele in Esiliate, A. Scarlatti, Seattle Baroque
Orchestra)
"But the real star is soprano Melissa Fogarty, who as Ishmael delivers
arias with a marvelous range of color and nuance, perfectly capturing and
conveying the victimized boy s array of emotions. Her performance in Part
Two, where Ishmael and Hagar desperately face death in the desert, is outstanding,
whether in the duets or in her extended recitatives and arias."
--David Vernier, Classics Today (2/04)
(Live performance of Agar e Ismaele in Esiliate)
"Soprano Melissa Fogarty's Ishmael was an appealing young boy with spunk,
sung with a clean, well-cored sound."
--Philippa Kiraly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10/01)
(In concert with Concert Royal)
"This program featured an astonishing soprano. Melissa Fogarty, also
on short notice, prepared and sang two challenging and rewarding cantatas.
They were [among] that evening s high points."
--Tom Aldridge, (Indianapolis) NUVO Weekly (7/02)
(Clori, Tirsi e Fileno by G.F. Handel; Teatro Bacchino)
"With a secure and well-supported voice and an imaginative way with a
phrase, she also showed agility in her runs, binding them expertly in to the
line."
--Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Classical Voice (1/01)
(Aminta e Fillide by G.F. Handel; Teatro Bacchino; Berkeley Early Music
Festival, June 2000)
"Fogarty was a bright, secure Aminta; her pivotal aria Se vago rio was
delivered with uncommon sweetness."
--Georgia Rowe, Contra Costa Times
"Soprano Melissa Fogarty dispatched [her] vocal part with crystalline
clarity and ease."
--Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
"Fogarty's intense dramatic energy and brilliant coloratura conveyed
perfectly the ardor of the young shepherd."
--John Prescott, San Francisco Classical Voice
Last update June 2, 2008
