12HOURS:
’an intensely virtuosic series of thrilling variations from Middleton’s live voice, radiant, violent and exhaustingly enduring.’
’In the final hour, Middleton sang a sustained, lamenting threnody, inflected by microtonal twists and turns of keening beauty.’
’a mesmerising, inexorable examination of voice and singer at a subatomic level’
Benjamin Poore, Opera Magazine, December 2024.
PLASTIC BODIES:
‘The impact is astonishing, like listening to that doyenne of avant-garde vocal performance Cathy Berberian with an axe to grind’
Flora Willson, Times Literary Supplement
’five stars’
’great nuance’
Lauren McQuiston, Opera Now
voice(less)
‘A mesmerising performance of a stunningly powerful work.’
Simon Cummings, 5against4.com
‘Manchester-born Middleton is clearly at home in high-tension psychodramas that push at the limits of vocal technique’
Robert Barry, The Wire
The Blue Woman
‘Rosie Middleton…rose to the occasion with superlative communication and perfectly placed arresting high interjections’
Caroline Potter, I care if you listen
Pierrot Lunaire
’a staggeringly good Pierrot Lunaire’
Alexandra Coghlan, New Statesman
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