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first concert of this tour with KOB. Next stop Basel, then on to Freiburg for some more Mozart.
Final performance
so our journey here in Paris with Scarlatti’s Il primo Omicidio, comes to a close this evening. So many great memories of my time in France’s capital. Onwards to Amsterdam!
Premier - il primo omicidio
So the night has finally come for premier here in Paris. what a joy it’s been to meet with colleagues old and new and work on this piece and production. A huge congratulations, and good luck to all involved!
Il primo omicidio
Day 1 here in Paris for our new production of Scarlatti: Il Primo Omicidio, and my Paris opera debut. So great meeting up with old colleagues/friends, our conductor René Jacobs, and finding this piece together. It’s brilliant music, and unknown to me until now.
Performance link below.
https://www.operadeparis.fr/saison-18-19/opera/ilprimoomicidio
Die Schöpfung Lausanne
Haydn Die Schöpfung in this wonderful cathedral in Lausanne with Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne;
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne;
Berit Norbakken Solset, soprano;
André Morsch, baryton-basse and
Conductor Daniel Reuss
After a difficult personal time, where I was sad to cancel two projects this month due to family bereavement, I’m glad to be back working with such fantastic music, and colleagues
Opera, May 2016
MEYERBEER Emma di Resburgo, CD recording (Newplay Entertainment).
Thomas Walker gets through the fast coloratura of Norcesto, who is dramatically the most interesting character.
Diapason, 12 February 2016
GASSMANN L’Opera Seria, La Monnaie, Brussels Thomas Walker (Sospiro, le musicien) manqué un rien de liberté et de rayonnement.
Thomas Walker (The Composer) lacks no freedom nor radiation.
Financial Times, 15 July 2015
BLOW An Ode etc., Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, Wigmore Hall
But it was the singers who carried the piece: Thomas Walker – singing with operatic vigour…
Bachtrack, 9 May 2015
RAMEAU Platée, Stuttgart Opera, Christian Curnyn, Calixto Bieito
The title role is by a long way the biggest and tenor Thomas Walker gave a bravura performance…His voice was constantly full of character…
Opera Today, March 2015
RAMEAU Platée, Early Opera Company, Paul Agnew
This concert performance was a lively affair, lit up by a central performance by Thomas Walker that milked this drag-role nicely, from sashaying entrance through the church (St John’s Smith Square) to the outraged, impotent fury of the final scene.
The Independent, 27 February 2015
PURCELL The Indian Queen, English National Opera
…outstanding soloists…tenors Noah Stewart and Thomas Walker offer noble contrasts. Michael Church, The Independent, 27 February, 2015
The Telegraph, 27 February 2015
Purcell: The Indian Queen
Noah Stewart, Luthando Qave and Thomas Walker make notably strong contributions... Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 27 February, 2015
The Guardian, 27 February 2015
Purcell: The Indian Queen, English National Opera
Stewart and Walker are chillingly charismatic...
The Guardian, 22 December 2014
HANDEL Messiah, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Thomas Walker was bold in the tenor arias, delivering a sensual Comfort Ye, an unflinching Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart and a menacing Thou Shalt Break Them.
The Times, 24 November 2014
RAMEAU Platée, Early Opera Company, Paul Agnew, St John’s Smith Square, London
Walker has performed Platée on stage and his experience showed in his confident (despite the frock), even macho negotiation of some fearsomely high-lying music and in expressing not just Platée’s vanity and grossness (guttural consonants spat into various faces) but also her likeability…Walker’s virtuoso turn…
The Scotsman, 1 June, 2014
TOBIAS HUME, A Scottish Soldier, Concerto Caledonia, Delphian Records
Walker’s supercharged tenor becomes positively explosive in the wonderfully OTT bravado of The Souldier’s Song…
The Times, 2 June 2014
TOBIAS HUME, A Scottish Soldier, Concerto Caledonia, Delphian Records
On this delectably played disc the excellent Concerto Caledonia and tenor Thomas Walker dust off the ditties of one of its most flamboyant luminaries, Tobias Hume…
The Arts Desk, 21 June 2014
TOBIAS HUME, A Scottish Soldier, Concerto Caledonia, Delphian Records
The handful of vocal items are sung by tenor Thomas Walker, always alert to Hume's sense of humour. “I sing the praise of honor'd wars/the glory of wel gotten skars” runs The Souldiers Song, and Walker's trumpet calls are magnificent.
Limelight, 17 May 2014
MENDELSSOHN Elijah, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh
Equally striking was the Scottish tenor Thomas Walker as Obadiah…it was a pleasure to hear his beautifully modulated tone…almost Italianate sound in his heady top notes.
The Scotsman, 28 April 2014
BACH St John Passion, Herderkirche Weimar, Dunedin Consort, John Butt
…the emotion and drama in his interpretation was certainly gripping, thanks to the excitable spontaneity of the central Evangelist’s narrative role (euphoric and compelling from Scots tenor Thomas Walker)…