Helsinki Philharmonic under Susanna Mälkki September 2022

"The highlight of the evening was Jenny Carlstedt's enormously beautiful and expressive sounding Brangäne.

Her full-bodied and warm mezzo-soprano was perfect for the role, moreover she had a perfect German pronunciation and suitably empathetic facial expressions-and one can only hope she gets the chance to sing it on the big international stages soon"

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Tristan-Stuart Skelton

Isolde- Lise Lindstrom

Kurvenal- Brindley Sheratt

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Mats Liljeroos HBL 15.9.2022

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 “The emotional center of the performance is the waitress Tereza, and Jenny Carlstedt achieves greatnesses in this role. Her anguished body makes a convincing impression on the stage and vocally she masters the entire fireworks display, with tender melodies, dramatic outbursts and
musty low alto notes. Her scenes with daughter Markéta make the tears flow every single time.” 

HBL Tove.djupsjobacka October 2022

“The strongest performance is Jenny Carlstedt's waitress, who plays a key role in the revelation of a tragic secret to the wedding party” 

HS Hannu-Ilari lampila.2022

"As a dark center of energy, Jenny Carlstedt fills the stage as the despairing and furious waitress Tereza. Her voice and body in anguish Her scenes with her dead daughter Markéta are downright painful to watch"

Ålandstidningen / Peter Lobråten October 2022
 

Jenny Carlstedt - Mezzo soprano

Anton Ljungqvist -  Baryton

Magnus Svensson- Piano

" Igor Stravinsky, sung by the marvellous mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt,

-The vocal lines were conveyed with reflective beauty by Carlstedt, with her readings endorsed by Adès’s ever-sensitive keyboard accompaniment.  Four Songs yielded to musical enchantment at the highest level.-"

"Closing the first half, Carlstedt and Thomas Adès gave an absolutely enchanting account of Stravinsky’s very last musical composition, the playful masterstroke The Owl and the Pussy-cat (1966).- Beautifully served by witty performance, Stravinsky’s joyfully surreal setting was pure aural delight."

Music Centre, Helsinki

Sunday 24 October 2021, 3 pm

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