Profile reviews
9Hannah Sawle’s Adina was there in every sense: a brilliantly secure, capacious, fluent piece of singing that I’d never have thought to have found in such circumstances. And that HGO could field so impressive a lead converted me to them forever
The Bell Song sung by Lakme in the market square was spectacular. Reaching notes that others singers could only dream of Ms. Sawle held the audience in the palm of her hand as her vocal acrobatics were so utterly enchanting
Past Production Reviews
15My money was on Hannah Sawle’s Elettra: tense, exciting, glorious in every bar of (fiendishly) demanding coloratura, and bringing out the giddying moods through which Elettra is driven
If the team I saw was the ‘gentler’ one then no such attribute attached to Hannah Sawle,hose Elettra was the most polished and (in colaratura terms) almost brazenly accomplished performance
In the Bernstein, the jazz trio blended seamlessly when called for, but each singer also displayed real panache and distinctive personality when allowed. Hannah Sawle [was a ] suave soprano with a nice, unforced belt voice’
The performers diction was uniformly excellent; not a word, or joke, of Berkeley’s skilful, droll libretto was lost. Fine performances from [Adam Gilbert and] Hannah Sawle as his wife established the hard-up aristocrats. An honest pair who share a genuine affection; we can laugh at their short-comings but sympathise with their weaknesses’
Hannah Sawle produced an appealingly flirtatious lightness as Gianetta
Among the cast, soprano Hannah Sawle stood out… Sawle sang with impressive focus and bright tone, as the categorically in haste Diana, and was a strong presence in the ensembles’
Hannah Sawle is a bright Papageno
The Bell Song sung by Lakme in the market square was spectacular. Reaching notes that others singers could only dream of Ms. Sawle held the audience in the palm of her hand as her vocal acrobatics were so utterly enchanting
Hannah Sawle gave an impressive performance of this most challenging piece [the Bell song] to the huge appreciation of the Abergavenny audience
Hannah Sawle’s arch Queen of the Night was a concerned mother and sometimes witch, strangling birds and persecuting voodoo dolls whilst delivering assured and passionate coloratura’
Hannah Sawle brought off all the difficulties for which the role of the Queen of the Night is notorious
Her mother, played by Hannah Sawle, looking magnificent in a black and silver gown, despatched both the formidable Queen of the Night arias with confidence and technical accomplishment’
Hannah Sawle as Pamina was committed and assured
Hannah Sawle was on fabulous form as the Queen of the Night… decapitating and dismembering a parrot in her first aria, later viciously attacking a voodoo doll of Sarastro as she exhorts Pamina to revenge her perceived wrongs, Sawle builds up a picture of a disturbed, greedily callous Queen who is probably beyond the reach of any redemption’
