News About Marie Lenormand

Recent acclaim for ADA Artists

In review: Maria Lenormand’s “feisty, vocally vibrant” Despina at New York City Opera

Things start to go off in Mr. Alden’s production when Despina appears, here the feisty, vocally vibrant mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand. We first see her sitting in the park, looking almost like a vagrant, accepting a cigarette from a passing stranger. If you did not know she was the sisters’ read more

BEST OF: Performances of Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand make New York Times’ list of 2011 highlights

Vivien Schweitzer, music critic for the New York Times, included performances by ADA artists Matt Boehler and Marie Lenormand in her classical music highlights of 2011.

Marie Lenormand as the Fox in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen:

‘CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN’ A host of unusual creatures have appeared with Alan

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Lenormand a “lustrous and agile” Dorabella

“Five of the six singers made their Lyric Opera debuts with this production, but it was the two mezzos, Marie Lenormand and Susanne Mentzer, who stole the show and appropriately earned the most applause come curtain. Lenormand’s Dorabella, though attached at the hip to Fiordiligi for most of the opera’s … read more

“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
Read the full review here.

“Who would have guessed that two women dressed in fox costumes, whose courtship … read more

“Lenormand shines as Cherubino”

Marie Lenormand shines as Cherubino, the hormonally charged adolescent ensnared in the two couples’ love games. Lenormand makes Cherubino a petite gallant, yet her notable mezzo shades youthful impulsiveness with throaty fervor and poignant yearning.”
Read the full review here at The Houston Chronicle

“The “pants role” of young … read more

Lenormand Awarded Critical Prize

Mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand has been awarded the highest possible critical prize in France for the year 2010 for her portrayal as the title role in the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas. Staged once again by l’Opera Comique de Paris, the company of its original debut, Mignon rode an unprecedented … read more

Lenormand Triumphs in Paris

ADA Artist Marie Lenormand charms audiences and critics as the title character in Ambroise Thomas’ Mignon at the Opéra Comique.

“Marie Lenormand hints at the fragility of the title character and the doubts that surround this young girl lost among a troupe of traveling actors and gypsies. Her musicality allows … read more