| Catherine Naglestad soprano |
| In SFO 2005-2006 Season Rodelinda - Rodelinda / Norma - Norma |
| Catherine Nagelstad, playing the lead, an occasionally astonishing voice. (Alcina) |
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| Catherine Nagelstad sings the female main role.(source) |
| Thankfully, the original cast from Stuttgart, led by Catherine Naglestad�s smoldering Alcina, were as warm and passionate as the staging was cold and calculating. Not a natural mistress of the coloratura, Ms. Naglestad impressed with her musicality and intensity. (Review-Alcina) |
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| Alcina at the San Francisco Opera. Pamela Rosenberg set patrons buzzing � some in excitement, some in anger � with this postmodern staging of Handel's masterpiece, imported from the Stuttgart Opera (which Rosenberg used to run). But if the directorial antics were too cute and frenetic by half, there was no mistaking the musical splendor of the performance, especially the company debuts of soprano Catherine Naglestad and mezzo-soprano Alice Coote. (Review) |
| The Alcina of Soprano Catherine Naglestad was unforgettable for the voluptuous quality of her voice and phrasing, and for the regal beauty she brought to her character; no small feat since the director had her legs in the air frequently. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ms. Naglestad has scored successes with this and other Staatsoper Stuttgart productions. No fewer than three of the five women on stage were in trouser roles, which made for a number of lovely romantic duets. (Review) |
| As Alcina, the island temptress and sorceresses, Catherine Naglestad moves like a cat onstage and sings tenderly, powerfully, and edgily. When seducing the youth Ruggiero, her voice is cloying and childlike. When affronted by Ruggiero's inconstancy, she wins him back riding Handel's dazzling scalar ascents. Later, when she realizes she has lost him, she sings the justly famous and poignant aria "Ah! Mio cor!" She dissembles so well that when her breast escapes from her gown, she doesn't care. (DVD Review) |
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| SFO 2005 Review Out-Takes: Soprano Catherine Naglestad, in the title role, brought beauty of sound and authenticity of emotion to everything she sang, gathering strength as the evening proceeded. She was ardent in love, furious in defying Grimoaldo, and heartbroken in laments, particularly in Act III when she thought Bertarido had been killed in his prison escape ("Ahi perch�, giusto ciel?" - Why, just Heaven?).. / SF Classical Voice |
| In the title role, Naglestad has eight arias, each as remarkable as the last. We feel for her loss of her husband, Bertarido whom she believes to be dead, and her struggle to protect their son, Flavio But we appreciate also her rising awareness of the political plots developing around her and her ability to devise a threat of her own. Particularly within the ornaments of the vocal lines, ...We hear grief and anguish in Naglestad's voice. Her husband, Bertarido, who is returning to the city but keeping hidden, grieves not for his lost throne but for his family./ Daily Republic |
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