Lindsay Ohse, soprano
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Reviews

Queen of the Night, Santa Fe 2010
Queen of the Night at Santa Fe Opera, 2011

"Portland Opera last week did offer cause for optimism about classical music’s future... Last week's showcase for soprano Lindsay Ohse revealed an actress with real stage presence and terrifically expressive facial and physical presentation. She’s got the vocal chops, too, with maybe a little work needed to smooth out the transition from softer passages to her big guns in louder expressive passages. But Ohse, clad in a sea blue gown, sounded ready for prime time now, moving effortlessly from portraying a corpse to a tipsy music fan in successive songs by the great 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc, and confidently from French to Russian to German in music by Rachmaninoff and Mozart, in one case assuming the character of a lusty shepherd boy. As usual, PO assistant director Robert Ainsley provided informative program notes, insightful stage comments and sensitive accompaniment. These free programs at the Portland Art Museum are real treats."
     Oregon Arts Watch, February 4, 2012

"Lindsay Ohse contributed a charming and characterful Barbarina."
     Seen and Heard International, November 8, 2011 

"Constance, portrayed in these performances by soprano Lindsay Ohse...opted for a more forward vocal production...At best, the sound soared through the auditorium with a crystalline, pointed tone, which characterized her opening scene with in act one and culminated in the lovely phrases “I did not think what I said would give offense”."
     NewOutPost.com, July 24th, 2011

"Lindsay Ohse's Anne Putnam [was] viciously poisonous and seductively seething."
     Longboat Key Observer, March 9, 2011

 "Lindsay Ohse, a studio artist, stood out for her compassionate and reverberating Viclinda."    
     Longboat Key Observer, March 2, 2011
   
"...Lindsay Ohse delivered the Queen of the Night's arias with panache."
     Wall Street Journal,  March 24th, 2010
     
"Soprano Lindsay Ohse as the Queen of the Night offered a dazzling, crystal-clear 
voice."    
     Palm Beach Arts Paper, March 24th, 2010
     
"Lindsay Ohse took on the treacherously stratospheric role of the Queen of the Night with vengeance."
     Longboat Key Observer, Wednesday, February 26th, 2010
    
 "Soprano Lindsay Ohse as the Queen of the Night has only two appearances to make her impact and the central aria in each is a real killer. Ohse commanded the treacherous coloratura – fast and high...She was convincing through, and one felt quite sorry for Pamina after the venom of “Holle Rache.”"
     Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Monday, February 15th, 2010
   
“…Lindsay Ohse sparkled as Gianetta.”
     Opera News, October 2008
    
“Lindsay Ohse plays the troubled Antonia convincingly, and her dramatic soprano is impressive, equally in control throughout her considerable range.”
     Lawrence Journal World,  February 3, 2007
 “The performance of … Lindsay Ohse (Laetitia), [was] musically and dramatically first-rate.”  
     Lawrence Journal World, November 18, 2006
    
“Standing out among this wonderful cast were the stars of the show, Tyler Simpson as Figaro and Lindsay Marie Ohse as Susanna, his bride-to-be… Equally comfortable on stage was Ohse, a soprano with a crystalline, agile voice that is tailor-made for this type of Mozart role. With a voice that projects as effectively as her acting, Ohse conveyed everything from girlish charm to jealous outrage with an intensity that carried to the back row.”
     Lawrence Journal World, Saturday, May 6, 2006