This Rigoletto fails to meet its potential His voice was rich, warm and resonant, and his empathy for Rigoletto's plight was completely evident in his dramatic interpretation." "The title role was magnificently performed by baritone Quinn Kelsey. "Baritone Kelsey delivers his small but crucial part with such effortless authority that one wishes his role were twice as long." Review: Musically splendid Aida Ends Vancouver Opera season It’s a performance worth going back a second time for."
Singing with a looseness, almost a roughness, he makes Verdi’s ferociously high writing sound completely instinctive, conversational (if that conversation has been scripted by Shakespeare). In Quinn Kelsey, Alden has a singing actor eminently capable of carrying the composer’s close psychological scrutiny. "The principal fascination for Verdi in tackling Victor Hugo’s Le roi s’amuse was the character of the jester. Out with the old 'Rigoletto' and in with the new at ENO His Rigoletto is a huge, shambling presence, who sings with tremendous assurance and easy, even richness." ".what dramatic intensity there is comes from individuals and especially from Quinn Kelsey in the title role. His boorish, tortured performance, together with a voice rich and secure from bottom to high top, is incomparable."įiona Maddocks - The Guardian/The Observer "While his music explodes with all too human anguish, his brutal nature, superbly portrayed by the Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey, is repellent. "Kelsey found a wonderful vocal balance between snarling outbursts and a darkly resonant power that made his Count both frightening and entirely human." LYRIC OPERA’S ‘IL TROVATORE’ IS GRAND OPERA AT ITS FINEST Kelsey's passionately rendered di Luna amply demonstrated this gifted young singer's prodigious artistic growth in recent seasons, with an elegantly shaped account of "Il balen" and an upper register that rang above the ensembles." "Kelsey has now fully graduated into the leading Verdi baritone roles he was clearly born to sing. Lyric revisits one of Verdi's toe-tappers with success Ruth Bingham - Special to the Star-Advertiser It was a knockout performance, and he is clearly at the height of what will surely be a long and storied vocal career."
"Kelsey’s highlights included his touching duet with Gilda (Nadine Sierra), and his portrayal of a father’s anguish as he tries to find out what has happened to his missing daughter. Spectacular ‘Rigoletto’ benefits from concert format
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