Artists

Biography:

Soprano Amanda Forsythe enjoys bringing virtuoso artistry to major stages on both sides of the Atlantic. Praised as “simply dazzling” (New York Times), she has appeared repeatedly at such venues as the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and the Rossini Festival in Italy. She is a frequent soloist with the Boston Early Music Festival, with whom she can be heard on the GRAMMY®-winning recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers.

Ms. Forsythe has enjoyed a long and fruitful artistic partnership with Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell. Forsythe’s solo debut album, The Power of Love with Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire, became an international bestseller in 2015, with BBC Music Magazine writing, “Forsythe sets arias on fire; her handling of war-horses like ‘Da tempeste’ (Giulio Cesare) will amaze even the jaded connoisseur.” She can also be heard on the Apollo’s Fire albums of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John Passion, works of Mozart, and her second solo album Heavenly Bach.

In North America, Ms. Forsythe has appeared with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Baroque, and recently made her début with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Jeannette Sorrell. Opera house engagements have included Handel’s Semele (Philadelphia) and Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Seattle Opera).

Her European concerts have included the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra with John Eliot Gardiner, The Moscow Philharmonic, Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano, and Les Talens Lyriques with Christophe Rousset.

On Europe’s opera stages, she has appeared at the Berlin Komische Oper and the opera houses of Geneva and Munich, in addition to several engagements at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and Covent Garden, where her most recent performances as Marzelline in Fidelio received rave reviews. Ms. Forsythe toured Europe and the USA with French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, performing works based on the Orfeo myth.

She recorded the role of Euridice with Jaroussky in the 1774 version of Gluck’s Orfeo, on the ERATO label. A graduate of Vassar College, she grew up in New York City and makes her home in Boston.