Boden sang with sweet, refined tone, especially in an eloquent 'Consider, fond shepherd'. 'Would you gain the tender creature'... would surely have charmed anyone but this unfeeling brute.Opera Today, 29 November 2013Boden showed off his easy lyric tenor…and demonstrated his flexibility by doubling as the third nymph in the trio of nymphsPlanet Hugill, 13 February 2015Boden showing a mellifluous lyric tenor voice and excelling at the elaborate ornamentation of the songsPlanet Hugill, 25 January 2015Both human morals and musical hues sink low, which only serves to emphasise the glistening lustre of Barbara Hannigan who, as Isabel, soars with stunning sumptuousness and sheen. Similarly, the high-lying lucidness of tenor Samuel Boden Boy/Young King evinces a penetrative purity and vision which is woefully absent elsewhere in this poisonous court.Opera Today, 12 May 2018British tenor Samuel Boden is perfectly cast as Orpheus: not only does he have a wonderful timbre, but he also conveys with great conviction the changing moods of the title heroTranslated from the Cultural Press Agency, 2 May 2015
Boden sang with sweet, refined tone, especially in an eloquent 'Consider, fond shepherd'. 'Would you gain the tender creature'... would surely have charmed anyone but this unfeeling brute.Opera Today, 29 November 2013
Boden showed off his easy lyric tenor…and demonstrated his flexibility by doubling as the third nymph in the trio of nymphsPlanet Hugill, 13 February 2015
Boden showing a mellifluous lyric tenor voice and excelling at the elaborate ornamentation of the songsPlanet Hugill, 25 January 2015
Both human morals and musical hues sink low, which only serves to emphasise the glistening lustre of Barbara Hannigan who, as Isabel, soars with stunning sumptuousness and sheen. Similarly, the high-lying lucidness of tenor Samuel Boden Boy/Young King evinces a penetrative purity and vision which is woefully absent elsewhere in this poisonous court.Opera Today, 12 May 2018
British tenor Samuel Boden is perfectly cast as Orpheus: not only does he have a wonderful timbre, but he also conveys with great conviction the changing moods of the title heroTranslated from the Cultural Press Agency, 2 May 2015