Fauré La Bonne Chanson and Ian Venables Remember This with the Elias Quartet and Tom Poster, Cheltenham Festival, May 2011:
‘The highly accomplished Caroline MacPhie’
‘….Caroline MacPhie had set the standard high with a finely-nuanced performance of Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson….in which words and music blended together to great effect’
Roger Jones, Gloucestershire Echo
Carmen, Scottish Opera, October 2010:
‘On stage, Caroline MacPhie and Katherine Allen did excellent work….both vocally and dramatically…’
Sarah Urwin Jones, The Times
‘Caroline MacPhie (Frasquita) and Katherine Allen (Mercédès) do a sterling job…’
Kenneth Walton, Scotsman
‘….the electricity of the girls singing Mercedes and Frasquita.’
Michael Tumelty, The Herald
Recital for Music in the Round, Sheffield, March 2010:
‘This is a young soprano we will hear more of, whether it be in opera or as here, as a song recitalist, an area she was said to excel in – she does! For a young singer barely out of music college, she is remarkably accomplished and confident in her ability….It’s an extremely well-tuned light lyric soprano with a bell-like top and tonal warmth exuding from a pliant middle register. Very well projected, she didn’t impose interpretation on the songs but let it grow out of her meaningful but not overdone use of words….’
Rachel Clegg, Sheffield Telegraph
Symanowski Stabat Mater, New London Orchestra and Choir, Cadogan Hall, October 2009
‘Corp’s three young soloists were perfect for the work…..Caroline MacPhie was radiant’
Bob Briggs, Seen and Heard International
Rossini L’occasione fa il ladro, Royal Academy Opera May 2009:
‘The Academy cast was packed with promise….Caroline MacPhie sang Berenice’s difficult music surely and truly….in the aria she spun her notes into touching, lovely lines’.
Andrew Porter, Opera
Final of Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2009, Wigmore Hall:
‘But my personal favourite was the Lancashire-born Caroline MacPhie. Her light-lyric instrument was clean-toned and perfectly tuned, and she delivered an enterprisingly original programme … with flair, style and musical imagination.’
Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph
‘…Caroline MacPhie … put over her material with far more dramatic verve than anyone else; her Cunning Little Vixen extract, sung in Czech, was especially gripping.’
Richard Morrison, The Times
The Cunning Little Vixen, Royal Northern College of Music, 2007:
‘… Caroline MacPhie, a sparky Vixen Sharp Ears and perfect foil to Cressida Van Gordon’s charmingly urbane fox.’
Lynne Walker, Opera Now
