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San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2020 Adler Fellows
“The singers selected as 2020 Adler Fellows are sopranos Anne-Marie MacIntosh (Langley, British Columbia, Canada), Elisa Sunshine (San Clemente, California) and Esther Tonea (Buford, Georgia); mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh (Vancouver, Canada); tenors Zhengyi Bai (Linyi, China), Christopher Colmenero (Burlington, Vermont), Christopher Oglesby (Woodstock, Georgia) and Victor Starsky (Queens, New York); baritone Timothy Murray (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); and bass Stefan Egerstrom (Brooklyn Center, Minnesota)… [ ]… 2019 Adlers Simone McIntosh, Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero and Christopher Oglesby continue in the program as second-year fellows.”
Clowning around meets killer coloratura at Vancouver Opera Festival's farce-happy La Cenerentola
“This is bubble-light stuff, but the singing features serious fireworks. Rossini plays endlessly and inventively with the trios and quartets of layered vocals in both acts, and McIntosh’s mezzo soprano sails into some dazzling acrobatics for the famously punishing final aria, ‘Non più mesta’. As it speeds up like a roller coaster, the perilous runs and trills come at her faster and faster, and she rides the impossible range with volume yet sweetness.”
“A mezzo of fine agility and lovely tone”
- Ludvig van Toronto
La Cenerentola: Giocoso, ma non troppo
“Vancouver’s own Simone McIntosh, in the title role, evolves in the course of two acts from the soulfully chaste mezzo of her opening aria as a put-upon drudge, Una volta c’era un re, to her coloratura star turn as a magnanimous queen in her Non più mesta finale.”
Review: Faust and La Cenerentola at Third Vancouver Opera Festival
“Mezzo Simone McIntosh wins over the audience with sheer vocal agility and a lovely rich sound.”
At the Vancouver Opera Festival, stars Simone McIntosh and Simone Osborne share much more than a first name (Cover Story)
“They each star in a main-stage show at this year’s Vancouver Opera Festival, they both grew up in Vancouver, they both studied at UBC School of Music, and they both did stints at the Canadian Opera Company’s ensemble studio. But most coincidentally of all, they share the name Simone—a moniker that, incidentally, means “heard by God”. One of the two vocal knockouts, soprano Simone Osborne, will play Marguérite in the fest’s production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, while fast-rising mezzo Simone McIntosh is taking on the title character in Gioacchino Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella).”
Young artists of Merola put a happy face on Mozart’s early ‘Il Re Pastore’
“Much of that energy goes into the flights of ornamental passagework that are designed to show off both his own creative virtuosity and that of the singers executing the music. The standout in that department was mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh as Tamiri, one of the two women — in addition to bringing rhythmic verve and tonal beauty to her assignment, she tore through the all-important coloratura with a dexterity and precision that were marvelous to behold.”