To Sir, With Love...

Jennie sang her first Countess Geschwitz in Berg's Lulu on June 4 at the Royal Opera House in London. The reviews were quick to come out and many! Pictures on All Hail Jennie/Facebook. Looks like a role Jennie can sink her teeth into. And she looks fabulous. I sure hope the ROH releases it on DVD. A radio broadcast on BBC3 is scheduled for July 4 but do stay tuned for Katrin's in depth blog review of her experience seeing Lulu live!

Go Jennie:

"...Jennifer Larmore sang Countess Geschwitz with devastating beauty and her deep attachment to Lulu was clear from the outset. A fantastically moving performance..."

“…The Countess was played by a wonderful Jennifer Larmore with a quiet power that was traced with yearning poignancy throughout…”

“…Jennifer Larmore’s feminine Geschwitz is a surprising success…”

“…Jennifer Larmore's cheerful and well-groomed version of the melancholy lesbian Countess Geschwitz…”

“…Jennifer Larmore's glamorous Countess Geschwitz…”

"...Inherently more sympathetic, Countess Geschwitz became the more involving through Jennifer Larmore's assumption – yielding and vulnerable, yet with an inner resolve and sense of self-sacrifice that intensified over the opera in a way that Eichenholz's Lulu never quite managed. If this had seemed an unlikely role for the American singer, it is one she brought off with conviction..."

“…a dramatic and enigmatic portrayal of Geschwitz…”

“…the excellent Jennifer Larmore…”

“…Jennifer Larmore was a more feminine Geschwitz than one often hears, beautifully sung…”

“…Jennifer Larmore's Countess Geschwitz is also a far more sympathetic portrayal than the butch Cruella DeVille some assume gay people must be…”

“…Jennifer Larmore's lovestruck, guileless Geschwitz – Loy's cleverest characterisation – holds a tiny kernel of kindness in an otherwise unremittingly brutal and depressing creation…”

“…Larmore’s Geschwitz brought a sympathetic, attractive quality to the role of the lesbian
countess…”

"...Jennifer Larmore’s superbly sung Countess Geschwitz..."

"...Jennifer Larmore looked and sounded stunning as the lesbian Countess Geschwitz..."

"...Jennifer Larmore gave a touching and intelligently-nuanced performance as Gräfin Geschwitz, the reverse-image of the iron-clad Lulu in her femininity and vulnerabilty..."