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A. ZEMLINSKY: SECHS GESÄNGE OP. 13 IN DE VEREENIGING NIJMEGEN- MARTIN SIEGHART –ARNHEM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 25.4.2008 DE GELDERLANDER – Maarten-Jan Dongelmans 26.4.2008 „…In her the hyper-sensitive music finds a grandious solicitor…” original: „ … In haar vindt deze overgevoelige musiek een grandioze pleitbezorgster…“
ZEMLINSKY SONGS OP. 13 (MAETERLINCK-SONGS) IN DEN HAAG - DR. ANTON PHILIPSSAAL - JAAP VAN ZWEDEN - RESIDENTIE ORKEST 12.4.2008 ALGEMEEN DAGBLAD - Wienand van de Kamp ***** (5 stars) "...her comfortably warm voice and her sensitive recitation fits perfect to Maeterlinck's mysterious charged texts and Zemlinsky's over-minded sound language..."
RECITAL WITH MAHLER SONGS IN WASHINGTON DC (7.1.2008) www.allartsreview4u.com 8.1.2008 - Bob Anthony Hermine Haselbock presented a most moving interpretation of Gustav Mahler's compositions in a three part musical program assisted by pianist Russell Ryan at the Austrian Embassy ... Her vocal strength and beauty blossomed with the "Songs of a Traveling Journeyman" ... Her pleading quality particularly in her smooth upper register was "honeyed". Such wonderful purity of sound for such a dramatic soprano is rare. Such phrases like "...the happiness I mean can never bloom" were interpretive gems ...Ms. Haselbock returned for two encores ("Freuhlingsmorgen" and "Scheiden und Meiden") after standing ovations to present a couple of frothy lieder to leave the audience in a overtly happy mood."
CD - DONIZETTI: ADELIA released at SONY BMG www.operatoday.com 28 Nov 2007 - James Sohre "Odetta is portrayed with sympathy and a rich mezzo by Hermine Haselboeck... highly affecting singing..."
RECITALS IN NEW YORK (Carnegie Hall and Austrian Cultural Forum) 4 Recitals in New York, March-April 2007 - Wolf: Goethe Songs, Itlalian Songbook, Spanish Songbook, Schreker Songs with Wolfgang Holzmair, Russel Ryan and Susanna Phillips OPERA NOW July/August 2007 - Matthew Gurewitsch " ... Hermine Haselböck, a mezzo of rare, amber glow in her lower register, which connects seamlessly with her pointed, easy top ..."
BEETHOVEN MASS IN C MAJOR - FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN 5.6.2007 DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE - RAFAEL FRÜBECK DE BURGOS DRESDNER NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN- Hartmut Schütz, 7.5.2007: "... gratifying Claudia Barainsky (Soprano), Hermine Haselböck (Alto) and Reinhard Hagen (Bass) with adequate high level, in which the beautiful, bright Alto-voice was striking especially pleasant ..."
SOLO RECITAL IN WASHINGTON 28.4.2007 - Volker Nemmer, piano FESTIVAL OF SONG - ACF Washington WASHINGTON POST - Mark J. Estren 30.4.2007 >> "... rich, expressive voice..."
WOLF SPANISCHES LIEDERBUCH IN WASHINGTON 11.4.2007 FESTIVAL OF SONG - ACF Washington - in cooperation of the Vocal Arts Society Washington (>>) WASHINGTON POST - Cecelia Porter 13.4.2007 >> "Haselboeck's voice has carrying power along with charm and a delicate assortment of sweet timbres."
RECITAL HUGO WOLF GOETHE SONGS NEW YORK - Weil Recital Hall - Carnegie Hall Debut with Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone - Russel Ryan, piano 27.3.2007 NEW YORK TIMES 29.3.2007 "... On Tuesday night Wolf had ardent champions in the Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and his compatriot the mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck, who performed selections from Wolf’s Goethe Lieder at Weill Recital Hall... He (Mr Holzmair) had an equally ardent partner in Ms. Haselböck, who sang with elegance, dramatic commitment and control. They were a handsome couple onstage ..."(Vivienne Schweitzer) >>
ADELIA (Donizetti) in Bolzano (role of Odetta) ALTO ALDIGE" 18.12.2006 "... the Odetta of Hermine Haselböck pointed with subtlety of the voice..." (Giacomo Fornari) >>
RECITAL IN NEW YORK CITY 9.9.2006 (Songs by Schönberg, Schreker, Berg, Zemlinsky) Opera Now - Matthew Gurewitsch (Jan-Feb.2007) >> "... The Austrian Cultural Forum presented piquant and intriguing mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck... but as soon became evident, she has a broad palette at her command, and her choice of colours was as effortless as it was poetically and intuitively right..."
New York Times - Bernard Holland (9.9.2006) "... Ms. Haselböck is a very good young mezzo-soprano. Her singing is elegant and tasteful yet emotionally connected to the subject matter..." >>
OPERNWELT 03.2006 - CD "Songs by Zemlinsky" "A matter of particular interest is the CD of the young Austrian Mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck ... on the one hand Haselböck's voice pleases with quality, on the other hand she is able to wonderfully shine through the text both poetically and dramatically." Gerhard Persché
RECITAL IN WASHINGTON DC (Songs by A. Zemlinsky) Washington Post - Cecelia Porter (13.10.05) Atrium of the Austrian Embassy Oct. 11th 05 "Hermine Haselboeck has a powerful, rich and finely modulated mezzo voice. But even more, she is a superb lieder singer, as she made clear Tuesday at the Austrian Embassy. Her superb song recital was part of the ongoing concert series "Austrians in Exile" ... As she sang her way through four sets of his works, she enlisted every possible vocal inflection, coloristic shade and detail of phrasing to capture the precise emotional meaning of a wide-ranging assortment of musical settings..."
COSI FAN TUTTE IN THE NETHERLANDS (Dorabella) Trouw - Peter van der Lint, 29.09.05 Orpheus Apeldoorn 27.8.05: „Ecxellent prepared singer-sestet... Among the ladies Hermine Haselböck was a real discovery.“
Het Parool -Michael Khalifa(01.09.05) Concertgebouw Amsterdam 31.08.05: „It were the two female principal performers, who brought the big hall to ecstasise... Hermine Haselböck, who completely acted out a life-loving and hysterical Dorabella.“
STYRIARTE GRAZ / CARMEN (Frasquita) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Eleonore Büning, (27.6.2005) "...This new Carmen in Graz is up to now the greatest opera-event of the season, even smaller roles are excellent cast like Hermine Haselböck as Frasquita ..." (Frasquita = in the primary version mezzo-soprano )
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