Berio Sequenza III
SSO Complete Sequenzi, Merlyn Quaife Soprano
6 May 2000
“ … could hardly fail to be gripped by the virtuosity of her performance, at times creating the illusion that she was a whole cast of performers engaged in bringing to life a small-scale drama.”
Kerry Medea
Melbourne, Merlyn Quaife Medea
Dan Thompson, Herald Sun Reviewer, 1994
“ Merlyn Quaife’s Medea is magnificent. She glows with malevolent energy, exotic eyes seductive one second, flashing hatred the next... the personification of eroticism, calculation and beauty.”
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Poulenc La Voix Humaine—The Human Voice
Chapel Off Chapel, Merlyn Quaife Elle
John Slavin, Reviewer, 7 March 2003
“ Quaife brings glamour and emotional warmth to the melodious recitative … She exposes the character’s soul to us skin by skin … She creates a small gem that dazzles.”
Recital Australian Art Song
Merlyn Quaife Soprano and Michael Kieran Harvey Piano
Sandra Bowdler, Reviewer
“ A Fearless Soprano Fascinates.
“ Think a recital of Australian art songs is bound to be dull? Not when Merlyn Quaife is singing them.”
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
OperaOpera, Merlyn Quaife Pierrot
David Gyger, Reviewer, August 2003
“ I was able to savour every nuance not only of her singing but of her extraordinary performance persona and body language.”
Schoenberg String Quartet No 2
Arditti String Quartet, Merlyn Quaife Soprano
Clive O’Connell, Reviewer, 2 November 2002
“ In fact, Quaife’s no-nonsense style and razor-sharp exactness—in observation of dynamics, care of phrasing, textual clarity—made an ideal match for the quartet.”
