Critically Acclaimed Performances......

 

Elaine has recently returned from Amsterdam where she

made her house and role debut with the

Netherlands Opera in Elektra

in the role of the Aufseherin (Overseer)

 

Elaine also covered the title role and sang Elektra

 for the Piano Dress rehearsal as well as in some studio rehearsals

 

 STRAUSS  ROLE  DEBUT

After a very successful run of performances of Marianne Leitmetzerin in Der Rosenkavalier at Covent Garden you can now see some images of Elaine in the show on this site.  The complete opera was recently broadcast on Radio Three.

Act II with Sir Thomas Allen

Photo:  Neil Gillespie

 

You missed it:  VIER LETZTE LIEDER

with Cyprus Sinfonia (conductor Michael Thorne)

at St John's, Smith Square on Friday 26th June

"Glorious singing"

 

REVIEW

by Nicola Lisle  (Oxford Times  6.11.08)

VIER LETZTE LIEDER with Oxford Chamber Orchestra

Oxford Town Hall, 1st November 2008  

Conductor: Catherine Underwood   Leader: Andy Nex

"There was evocative music of a different kind with Richard Strauss's emotionally-charged Four Last Songs, in which the varying moods were sympathetically captured by soprano Elaine McKrill. You need a big voice to cope with the Town Hall acoustics (and the occasionally over-loud orchestra), but fortunately McKrill has exactly that - a powerful, thrilling voice, which could be dramatic and impassioned one minute, and lyrical and tender the next. Her operatic credentials were very much in evidence in her strong interpretation, musicality and faultless diction, all of which were combined to produce a performance that was mesmerising in its intensity."