BiographyFirst Prize winner at the 8th Internationales Wagnerstimmen Wettbewerb at Karlsruhe in October 2015, and the recipient of a Bursary from the 2016 International Opera Awards Foundation, Kirstin is a dual national of New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Kirstin read English Literature and Italian at the University of Auckland befor...read more
BiographyFirst Prize winner at the 8th Internationales Wagnerstimmen Wettbewerb at Karlsruhe in October 2015, and the recipient of a Bursary from the 2016 International Opera Awards Foundation, Kirstin is a dual national of New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Kirstin read English Literature and Italian at the University of Auckland befor...read more
At least Wagner has delicate woodwind to paint Ada’s otherness, in the manner if not the matter of Brünnhilde’s humiliation in Act Three of Die Walküre. All eyes and ears, though, are on the soprano who has to manage her absurdly long and broken-backed Act Two aria in which she resolves to sacrifice immortality for love.Young New Zealander Kirstin Sharpin rose jaw-droppingly to the challenge.
The luminous warmth enveloping her dramatic-soprano strength will make Sharpin a fabulous Straussian.
18 March 2013
Ada is rather like a Queen of Night on anabolic steroids: the New Zealander Kirstin Sharpin was laser bright and well-nigh indefatigable.
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