Erin Wall

Erin Wall


Vocalists — Soprano

Revivals [of "Thaïs"] are rare, largely because of the immense difficulties, vocal and dramatic, of the title role. They were more than met, however, in this concert performance by Canadian soprano Erin Wall. Her glamour is magnetic: you understand why, at the start, men are prepared to bankrupt themselves for Thaïs. More important, however, is the extraordinary ease and sumptuousness of her tone, and a hovering, ecstatic quality in her singing that makes her so convincing as both sexual icon and saint. —Tim Ashley, The Guardian, August 19, 2011

"In Erin Wall, SFO gave us a Daphne to admire, applaud and remember. She poured her golden soprano into the part with an open heart and throat, commanding every dynamic level from a delicate thread of a piano to a full-throttled high C. She started off in solid voice, got even better as the opera progressed, and her soft high singing in the final transformation scene was the aural promise of earth's continuing bounty. She aptly conveyed a young girl's wish to remain a spiritual sapling, rather than move on to maturity and marriage." —Craig Smith, The New Mexican, July 15, 2007

I'm trying really hard here not to exaggerate. Still, for many of us in attendance at the Santa Fe Opera's new production of 'Daphne' last Saturday, it was a little like being Halley when that comet swam into view. Or Keats' historically incorrect Cortez at his first glimpse of the Pacific. But this time it was hearing Erin Wall sing the title role of Richard Strauss' late, nearly great 'bucolic tragedy' with power, feeling and conviction in one of those you-had-to-be-there SFO debuts that happen with any regularity. Remember Mariusz Kwiecien in '04 and Anthony Dean Griffey in '05? Well, you'll not soon forget Wall's Daphne. It's an unforgiving role, much of it lying in a treacherous register too high for comfort for most sopranos. Not here. The fearless, sweet and lovely Wall makes it sound easy, pouring out generous, burnished warmth, moving gracefully about the stage, creating a character for whom mortality is not enough and divinity too little." —John Stege, SF Reporter, July 18-24, 2007

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Soprano Erin Wall is one of today’s most in-demand sopranos with an extensive opera and concert repertoire that spans three centuries from Mozart and Beethoven to Britten and Strauss.

Ms. Wall’s current season displays her artistic versatility, from Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 with the Nashville Symphony and the Hessische Rundfunk (the latter to be preserved on a commercial DVD) to Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony and Bernard Haitink. Further concert appearances will include returns to the San Francisco Symphony in Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, to the Toronto Symphony for Beethoven’s . . .

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