“Platée has an exuberance in the music that is so exciting and so compelling.” Ahead of her production of Rameau’s Platée this summer, director Louisa Muller gives us some insight into this lesser-known work, with some teasers of her interpretation, her key sources of inspiration, and a whistle-stop tour of the plot! Platée runs from Wednesday 29 May – Sunday 30 June 2024: www.garsingtonopera.org/whats-on/platee
On Saturday 24th February 2024 at 5pm Rochester Cathedral Rochester Choral Society, King’s School Rochester Senior Choir, Rochester Cathedral Choir
“Samuel Boden’s contribution was delightfully perky.”Planet Hugill – 28 September 2023
“Boden negotiated the protagonist’s haute-contre utterances with seamless elegance and sensitivity … “Opera, November 2022 “Samuel Boden gave a mesmerising vocal performance in the title role … “Opera Scene, 5 September 2022 “Samuel Boden’s Orphée negotiates his aerial line … with unfailing elegance and sensitivity … “The Stage, 5 September 2022 “Samuel Boden plays Orphée… my how he can act. His anguish at the death of Euridice is palpable; his disconsolation is abject as her body is carried off … Musically, the role of Orphée is demanding. Charpentier calls for an haut-contre voice … Boden rises magnificently to this challenge, taking his tenor high without the...
“…radiant height, dynamics and differentiating design – characteristics that also come to light in the performance of the tenors Samuel Boden and Guy Cutting.”Online Merker, 15 April 2022 “Samuel Boden’s moving timbre corresponds well to the anguished “O Schmerz”.”Forum Opera, 8 April 2022
“Samuel Boden was a tender Idamante.”Opera, December 2021 “The overwhelming star of the evening is the Idamante of Samuel Boden, who only briefly survived the lily-adorned sacrificial altar, with a piano shimmer and the finest accuracy in haute-contre.”Nmz online, 17 November 2021 “the fine-voiced Samuel Boden as Idamante.”Orpheus Online, 11 November 2021 “Both Samuel Boden and Chiara Skerath are visually believable and immediately win over the audience with their beautiful voices. He with a bright, well-led tenor …”Der Online Merker, 11 November 2021 “The interaction and the musical dialogue between Chiara Skerath and Samuel Boden, who portrays the young prince is deeply moving. Samuel Boden has only...
