Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27th May 2017
“Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” is regarded as a monument in the United Kingdom, but rarely heard in the United States. On Friday, the Cincinnati May Festival revisited Elgar’s spiritual masterpiece for the first time since 1981. The result was revelatory…
Friday’s performance in the Taft Theatre was a triumph that benefited from a dream team of soloists: Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey as the dying Gerontius, the stunning mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as the Angel who escorts him into heaven and bass Matthew Brook as the Priest and Angel of the Agony…
The orchestral Prelude was eloquently shaped, and the Cincinnati Symphony provided polished, luminous playing.”
