Performance Year: 2025
American soprano Amanda Forsythe, celebrated for her performances on both sides of the Atlantic, is a regular soloist with the highly acclaimed baroque ensembles Les Talens Lyriques, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, Opera Prima, Pacific Musicworks, Early Music Vancouver, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She sang Euridice on the recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival, which won the GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. Additionally, her début solo album of Handel arias, The Power of Love with Apollo’s Fire, was recently followed with the highly praised album Heavenly Bach. Her discography includes more than 25 albums and DVDs, many of them premiere recordings.
Equally at home on the concert platform and on the opera stage, in recent seasons Forsythe’s major concert engagements have included performances with the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, The Academy of Ancient Music, the St. Louis Symphony, Music of the Baroque, and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
Forsythe made her American opera début with the Boston Early Music Festival, where her many roles have included Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Eolie in Desmarest’s Circé, Angelica in Orlando Generoso, Isabelle in Le Carnaval de Venise, Serpina in La serva padrona, and Edilia in Almira. She made her European operatic début in the role of Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, subsequently returning to perform Rosalia in L’equivoco stravagante and Jemmy in Guillaume Tell, which were both released on DVD. At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, she has performed Nannetta in Falstaff, Manto in Niobe, Amour in Orphée, and Marzelline in Fidelio. Other European engagements include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky’s production at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Komische Oper in Berlin.
