Pre 2000
| 1999 |
"Yvonne Fontane's interesting, dark-voiced Cherubino, quivering with apprehension." "The culmination of the Jenufa symposium at the University of Nottingham was a concert performance of a new reconstruction of Act 2 in the version heard at the Brno premiere in 1904 - the young German mezzo Yvonne Fontane generated great emotional power as a formidable Kostelnicka." "A mezzo soprano of great charm, impeccable diction, and a superb command of the Lied which she sang so expressively, displaying a beautiful tonal quality. She is an intelligent singer whom I fully expect to make her mark in the highly competitive world of lieder which demands much more than just the possession of a fine voice and Yvonne Fontane has all the necessary qualities." |
| 1997 http://sverigeapotek.se/ |
"Helmrath's trick to have memorised the score to such an extent that he hardly ever had to look into his music gave the interpretation an intensity which was strengthened by the flawless singing of the soloist Yvonne Fontane (mezzo soprano)." "..was much helped by the Carmen of Yvonne Fontane, who WAS indeed the real Carmen - Sultry, sexy, remorselessly calculating yet betimes wildly abandoned and driven as much by impulse and an apparent desperately sustained need as by calculating seduction. Miss Fontane was less the actress or the singer playing the role than the role itself. For surely, Carmen with all her inner turmoil and torments and her apparently unstoppable animal appetites and instincts must become the actress/singer if the role is to be realised in all its greatness and indeed, this is how I reacted to Miss Fontane - all expressed in glorious voice with the assured confidence of an excellent singer." (Carmen, Castleward Opera 1997, BELFAST NEWSLETTER) |
