MEDIA
GALLERY.
BEAUTIFULLY
LAYERED DYNAMICS.
"Um Mitternacht" started with rapt feeling, Wagner steady and Chang haunting of tone; both handled the anthemic close well. Can there be a better song to close a recital concerned with the artist's response to isolation than "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen?" Both musicians layered its dynamics beautifully."
OPERA NEWS
In Recital at Carnegie Hall for the Naumburg Foundation
SHE MADE SINGING OF THE DEEPEST, MOST FRAUGHT INTERIOR MOMENTS SEEM THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD.
"That was the one word that summed up Wagner’s performance; she made singing about some of the deepest and most fraught interior moments seem the most natural thing in the world. ... That’s a meaty program that covers a wide range of expression, positive feelings as profound as the negative ones. Wagner had the expressive seriousness to match this, well modulated in terms of force and weight, and unmannered. She has an attractive sound, a rich, rounded color that seems pitched lower than it is, hinting at contralto timbres, and feels like it has substance without heaviness. It sounds youthful with a touch of experience. That was an ideal sound for the Mahler songs."
NEW YORK CLASSICAL REVIEW
PHOTO
GALLERIES.
Production photos courtesy of Houston Grand Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, and others.
Production photos courtesy of Houston Grand Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Aspen Opera Theatre, Carnegie Hall, and others.
Promotional photos by Jiyang Chen, Daniel Welch, and others.
