As an opera critic with a certain orientation towards pre-modern times, I was excited to hear the young British tenor Samuel Boden in the role of the young and charming sailor Anthony Hope. Boden is one of today’s finest exponents of the wonderfully peculiar voice type, haute contre , a very bright tenor voice found mostly within French 18th-century opera. It was fun then to hear Boden sing in a 1979 musical with the greatest of course.NRK, 7 November 2019As Castor, Samuel Boden sang notably communicative French, his light tenor phrasing with a near-ideal period elegance.Financial Times, 23 November 2015As Telemachus, Samuel Boden both looked and sounded good, his flexibly tenor voice exactly suiting the rolePlanet Hugill, 14 January 2018As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.ClassicalSource.com, 7th June 2019As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.Classical Source, 7 June 2019
As an opera critic with a certain orientation towards pre-modern times, I was excited to hear the young British tenor Samuel Boden in the role of the young and charming sailor Anthony Hope. Boden is one of today’s finest exponents of the wonderfully peculiar voice type, haute contre , a very bright tenor voice found mostly within French 18th-century opera. It was fun then to hear Boden sing in a 1979 musical with the greatest of course.NRK, 7 November 2019
As Castor, Samuel Boden sang notably communicative French, his light tenor phrasing with a near-ideal period elegance.Financial Times, 23 November 2015
As Telemachus, Samuel Boden both looked and sounded good, his flexibly tenor voice exactly suiting the rolePlanet Hugill, 14 January 2018
As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.ClassicalSource.com, 7th June 2019
As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.Classical Source, 7 June 2019