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“Marie Lenormand is wonderful as the ardent Fox”
“The mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand is wonderful as the ardent Fox who weds the Vixen in one of the most disarming love scenes in all of opera.”
Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
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“Who would have guessed that two women dressed in fox costumes, whose courtship involves the gift of a dead rabbit, and whose spur-of-the-moment wedding ceremony is officiated by a woodpecker, would be the romantic opera couple of the year? That’s the only way to describe the irresistible spell cast by Isabel Bayrakdarian and Marie Lenormand as, respectively, the happily married Vixen and Fox of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, staged and designed by Doug Fitch, and conducted by the New York Philharmonic’s music director, Alan Gilbert, in an English translation by Norman Tucker. Their courtship, which took place not on an opera stage but in Avery Fisher Hall, involves unmistakably human elements of charm, seduction, misunderstanding, pain, vanity and rapture, all of which Bayrakdarian and Lenormand embodied with equal amounts of sincerity and comedy. Both are outstanding vocal artists, but they also proved themselves to be, if one can pardon the expression, true stage animals. The creaturely cavorting seems to come naturally to both women, and the delight they took in their stage shenanigans and invigorating love affair served as a springboard for their glorious vocal flights.”
Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News
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“Still so much is good here that it seems unlikely we’ll soon encounter a stronger vision of “Vixen.” The cast, all of whom navigated a mostly effective English translation of the libretto, ranged from good (Isabel Bayrakdarian as the vixen and Alan Opie as the forester) to excellent (Marie Lenormand as the fox and Joshua Bloom as the poacher Harasta).”
Seth Colter Walls, Washington Post
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“Another standout was Marie Lenormand, whose tangy mezzo sailed through the high lines of the Vixen’s randy boyfriend, the Fox.”
James Jordan, New York Post
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“Mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand provided rich-hued lyricism as Vixen’s ardent suitor, the Fox.”
Mike Silverman, San Francisco Chronicle
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