Amanda Forsythe is a regular soloist with the highly acclaimed baroque ensembles Les Talens Lyriques, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, Opera Prima, Pacific Musicworks, Early Music Vancouver, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Ms Forsythe’s several engagements with Chicago Symphony Orchestra have included Handel’s Sileti venti and Laudate pueri, Schubert Mass in E flat and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat. She returns in October 2024 for Mozart’s Coronation Mass.
Other engagements in 2024/25 include Handel’s Messiah with San Francisco Symphony and England’s Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2025 she returns to Canada’s Victoria Symphony for Haydn’s Creation followed by the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s’ 50th Anniversary Concert, Ginevra in Ariodante with Boston Baroque, concerts at Tucson Baroque Festival, and a European tour of works by Carissimi and a staged production of Keiser’s Octavia with Boston Early Music Festival
In recent seasons, Ms. Forsythe made several significant orchestra debuts and returns: Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Messiah with Apollo’s Fire and New York Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with New York Philharmonic, Messiah with Boston Baroque, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and Academy of Ancient Music, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Hong Kong Philharmonic, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s C Minor Mass with Royal Northern Sinfonia, Handel’s Deborah with NDR Radiophilharmonie, Handel’s Silete Venti and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Boston Baroque, Handel’s Roman Cantatas Festival Radovljica, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona with Pacific Musicworks, and concerts with Italian ensemble Opera Prima, Tafelmusik and Victoria Symphony.
Central to Ms. Forsythe’s performing career is her long-standing relationship with Boston Early Music Festival, where her many roles have included Poppea L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi); Eolie Circé (Desmarets), Angelica Orlando Generoso (Campra), Isabelle Le Carnaval de Venise (Campra), Serpina La serva padrona (Pergolesi), and Edilia Almira, Königin von Castilien (Handel). Her performance of Euridice on BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers won the GRAMMY AWARD for Best Opera Recording.
Her debut solo album of Handel arias “The Power of Love” with Apollo’s Fire was followed with the highly praised “Heavenly Bach.” Her discography includes role of Euridice in a new edition of Gluck’s Orfeo with the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and over 25 albums and DVDs, many of them premiere recordings. Forthcoming discs include Handel’s Roman Cantatas with Opera Prima, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and a solo Telemann album, both with the Boston Early Music Festival.
Opera roles in the USA also include Handel’s Semele Opera Philadelphia, Pamina Die Zauberflöte with Seattle Opera, and Poppea Agrippina, Melissa Amadigi, and the title roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Partenope with Boston Baroque.
In Europe she performed Corinna Il viaggio a Reims, Rosalia L’equivoco stravagante, and Jemmy Guillaume Tell at the Rossini Opera Festival, Nannetta Falstaff, Manto Niobe, Amour Orphée, and Marzelline Fidelio at London’s Royal Opera House and Pamina Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky’s production at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Komische Oper in Berlin.
June 2024
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