BiographyTenor Blake Friedman has been cited by the New York Times for the “plummy fullness and dusky hue” of his voice and by the New York Classical Review for his voice’s “buttery top.” He made his Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium debut last season singing Anatol in the quintet from Barber’s Vanessa for the Manhattan School of Music...read more
BiographyTenor Blake Friedman has been cited by the New York Times for the “plummy fullness and dusky hue” of his voice and by the New York Classical Review for his voice’s “buttery top.” He made his Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium debut last season singing Anatol in the quintet from Barber’s Vanessa for the Manhattan School of Music...read more
newyorkclassicalreview.comEric C. SimpsonOn Site Opera mines the rich drama of Gordon’s moving “Morning Star
Blake Friedman’s full tenor, slightly dark but with a buttery top, makes him a perfectly slick Irving—he crooned nicely in “O Morning Star,” the love song he writes to woo Fanny
07 юли 2019www.operanews.comOperaNewsFigaro (90210) & Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Plausibly romantic and funny as Don Alonso, if less so as the drunken soldier, Blake Friedman's Almaviva tended to blare at full tilt, but he relished opportunities for dimminuendos and softer dynamic effects. "Se il mid nome" proved a highlight, and he decorated his lines creatively throughout.