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Great music matters
“…both the text and music take the listener on a colorful and dramatic journey through many states of thought and emotion. It’s not to be missed.” — Arlo McKinnon,
Opera News
Read the full review of Michael Linton’s latest release here.
Wilde Songs
Wilde was full of contradictions, and his poetry reflected it. “Taedium Vitae” denounces erotic love, reviling the lust that “stab[s] my youth with desperate knives.” And indeed, Linton’s steady vocal line comes under assault from a pointillistic battery in the piano part. Crossley-Mercer’s voice impressively traverses the gradations of temptation and resoluteness.
~ From Opera News 2019. Joshua Rosenbaum
