Twyla Robinson

Vocalists — Soprano

Manager: William G. Guerri
Management Territory: Worldwide

[...] the orchestra played an electrifying "Lyric Symphony" by Zemlinsky under its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Just like the orchestra, soprano Twyla Robinson and baritone Roman Trekel were adept at alternating between chamber music-like intimacy and emotional waves in their singing. This was the Rotterdam Philharmonic at its best. —Anthony Fiumara, Trouw, 7.9.2009

Selections such as ”Down East” immediately showed off the sensuous, creamy sound of her voice. With perfect intonation and attention to phrasing, she is at home in this repertoire, relaxed, with charming expressions and gestures. —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Review of Spivey Hall recital, July 28, 2007

Soprano Twyla Robinson is a major catch. With perfect diction, crisply articulated consonants and a warm, wide vibrato, she purred and comforted - finding the child in the mother, and vice versa, for the line "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Bliss. —Pierre Ruhe, The Atlanta Constitution-Journal - Brahms Requiem with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

About

Twyla Robinson has consistently earned tremendous praise for her consummate musicianship, dramatic sensibility, and ravishing vocal beauty. She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, The Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, singing under such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Möst, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. For her performances of Brahms’ Ein deutsches requiem, Pierre Ruhe of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said: “Soprano Twyla Robinson is a major catch. With . . . perfect diction, crisply articulated consonants and a warm, wide vibrato, she purred and comforted…Bliss.”

Ms. Robinson begins the season in performances of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She opens the season of The Cleveland Orchestra in a gala performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Franz Welser-Möst and then joins Arizona Opera as Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte. Ms. Robinson will perform a recital at Stephen F. Austin University in East Texas and will be heard in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Bochum, Germany. Further orchestra performances include Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Nashville Symphony, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Rochester Philharmonic, and Verdi’s Requiem with National Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Robinson began the 2008–2009 season with performances of Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City and at the Richard Fisher Center at Bard College. She performed the Four Last Songs with the ballet of Opéra National de Paris as part of a tribute to well-known choreographer Maurice Béjart. She was heard as Donna Anna in Arizona Opera’s production of Don Giovanni, joined Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and the world premiere of Absolute Ocean, a work for soprano, harp and orchestra, and appeared in concert with the Indianapolis Symphony in a program of Berg, Haydn and Poulenc. She was heard as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and performed Verdi’s Requiem with Donald Runnicles at the Grand Tetons Music Festival. She finishes the season with a performance of Verdi’s Requiem at the Aspen Music Festival.

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