Last few tickets remaining for Purcell’s King Arthur this evening at the Wigmore Hall! I will be with a great team of soloists and the Early Opera Company, led by Christian Curnyn, for a performance one of Purcell’s best known works. Tickets and more info. available at: https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/purcell-201502111930
The revival of Globe/Royal Opera House’s collaboration of last year’s highly acclaimed L’Ormindo by Cavalli has begun! For full details see Performance Diary or click here. DATES February: 3 / 6 / 7 / 13 / 16 / 19 / 21 / 22 / 25 / 27 March: 3 / 5
“a virtuoso element which was beautifully realised by Boden.” Planet Hughill, 26 January 2015 “tenor Samuel Boden being outstanding” The Independent, 26 January 2015 “Samuel Boden sang ‘Arise ye subterranean winds’ which [has] a slightly awkward melody, but with quite a virtuoso element which was beautifully realised by Boden.” “Boden showing a mellifluous lyric tenor voice and excelling at the elaborate ornamentation of the songs” Planet Hugill, 25 January 2015
“Samuel Boden as the Shepherd [was] both incisive and superb…” The Guardian, 8 August 2014
“Samuel Boden, Abaris … A beautiful tenor voice, flexible and powerful” Destimed 19 July 2014 “British tenor Samuel Boden… achieves a personal triumph thanks to his clear, bright timbre, stylistic intelligence, his admirable clarity of diction and his flawless virtuosity.” Opera Online, 21 July 2014
“Two outstanding soloists in particular raised the level of performance… Boden’s contribution…was easily the best of the entire performance. Boden’s vocal strength across the whole tenor register with a resonant top and firm bottom equipped him well for his aria, the rhythmic nightmare “Geduld, wenn mich falchen Zungen stechen” (“Endure through lies and taunts and slander”), and his performance, the most dramatically convincing, was in his eyes as much as in his voice.” Bachtrack, 2nd April 2013
