New critics for Vert-Vert

OPERA NEWS
The Publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild

The editor's choise of recording in the June issue of OPERA NEWS is Opera Rara's new recording of Offenbach's Vert-Vert.

"Opera Rara has done it again! In its intoxicating new studio recording of the rara avis Vert-Vert, the label has restored an 1869 opra comique to bubbly life ......The cast is international but sounds convincing en franais...... Valentin's beloved, the faithful Mimi, is prettily sung by Thora Einarsdottir"

Richard Traubner complete review here

Dilettante Music

"Soprano Thora Einarsdottir sings with exceptional warmth and sweetness as the female lead".

Stephen Eddins, All Music Guide complete review here

Guest appearances in Wiesbaden

To the pleasure of her fans in Wiesbaden, Thora made guest appearances as Susanna in Figaro and as Ännchen in Der Freischütz at Hessishe Staatstheater Wiesbaden last April. Thora was a member of the Ensamble in Wiesbaden from 2001-2008.

Concert

This month Thora will sing Bach's Solo Kantata "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" as well as Mozart Requiem in Reykjavik.

Review on "Vert-Vert"

"Best of all, as a character, is lovely Thora Einarsdottir as Mimi, very believable as the innocent convent girl who runs away to follow her love (in a dragoon uniform showing off her legs – in the original staging.)"

Kevin Clark
The Operetta Research Center

To read the article here

Parsifal in Geneva

Thora will sing first Flowermaiden in Wagner's Parsifal at Grand théâtre du Genève. Conducted by John Fiore and stage director is Roland Aeschlimann.

Premiere 18 Mars 2010

For tickets and information click here

Nomination-The Icelandic Music Awards

Thora has been nominated as "Best voice" for the The Icelandic Music Awarsd 2010.
The jury's review says: " Nominated for her roles at the Icelandic Opera and the titel role in the oratorio Cecilia. Thora Einarsdottir in a world class singer"

More here

New CD

Thora sings the role of Mimi in Opera Rara's new recording of Offenbach's Vert-Vert.

The Sunday Times – Review:

This is the first-ever recording of Offenbach’s comic opera Vert-Vert (1869), a distortion of a previously famous story about a convent’s pet parrot that learns to utter profanities. In Offenbach’s work, this parrot has fallen off its perch in its uncorrupted state, so the convent girls replace it with Valentin, a naive boy whom one of the girls, Mimi, fancies something rotten. The music, here exquisitely played, is as skilfully wrought and as tuneful as any Offenbach, and the first-rate cast, headed by Toby Spence and Thora Einarsdottir, pitches its performances at exactly the right level: gentle wit. By Stephen Pettitt Published: January 24, 2010

To buy this CD and for more information here

Radio programme on Vert-Vert online

To hear the programme from the Icelandic National Radio here