Boehler impresses with “chilling intensity” and “sonorous bass”

Philip Glass’ “In the Penal Colony”
American Opera Projects

“As the Officer, Mr. Boehler, [embodied] the obsessive, maniacal delight of the true believer… With superb diction, an eerie, caressing lyricism in the higher parts of his range and an easy descent into punctuating profundo notes, he was terrifying.”
- Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
Link to full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576612891389823586.html

 “I’m sure I wasn’t the only listener who shivered at the creepy, chilling intensity of Matt Boehler’s performance as the Officer…”

Mr. Boehler wielded his sonorous bass to potent effect… [He] sang with a heft and clear English diction that rendered the titles superfluous.”
- Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times
Link to full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/arts/music/manhattan-school-of-music-symphony-reviewthe-penal-colony-by-american-opera-projects-review.html?ref=music

 

The Secret Agent
Center for Contemporary Opera, NYC

“Standouts among a hard-working vocal cast included… Matt Boehler as a thunderously nihilistic Professor.”
- Steve Smith, The New York Times
Link to full article  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/the-secret-agent-at-hunter-college-review.html?_r=1&ref=music

 

Handel’s Messiah
Church of St. Thomas, NYC

“…St. Thomas presented a cast of soloists on Tuesday evening that filled out the finest performance this grizzled follower of the work has heard in many years…”

” …Mr. Boehler too was excellent, producting solid tone right down to the loest note of darkness and death. And when the text furiously raged, this was clearly a bass with an attitude  and the goods to back it up”  - James R. Oestreich, The New York Times
 Link to full article   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/arts/music/09messiah.html?_r=1&ref=music