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REVIEWS
“Hazel McBain was an elegant, sassy Vixen, floating top notes with ease, matched by the mezzo soprano Katie Coventry as the roguish Fox.”
Mark Pullinger Opera Magazine
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"Hazel McBain shines with pearly tone in her numerous arias as La Colonella"
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Susanne Dressler Orpheus Magazine
"The slender, elegant officer La Colonnella is played by Hazel McBain as a courageous man-seeker with a finely glittering soprano."
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Gottfried Franz Kasparek DrehPunktKultur
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"Hazel McBain makes a wonderful Susanna, spry in voice and manner."
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Kate Molleson The Herald
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"Hazel McBain is no longer a soubrette, but a vocally mature Zerlina."
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Reinhard Kreichbaum Drehpunktkultur
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"The coloratura soprano Hazel McBain assumed the role of a powerful, masculine "queen" and shone particularly brightly in her firt act arias."
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Javier Lillo Beckmesser
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"Hazel McBain, with her now lyrical soprano, has almost outgrown Zerlina, but sings her two arias expressively and with fine colours."
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Klaus Kalschmid Opera News
"singing honours going to Hazel McBain’s sprightly mischievous Susanna"
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David Smythe Bachtrack
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"I also liked the sweet yet crazed soprano of Hazel McBain as K’s short-term girlfriend Leni"
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Simon Thompson Seen and Heard International
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"Perhaps young Hazel McBain and Elgan Llyr Thomas should be singled out for their brilliant interpretations of the roles of Leni and Tintorelli."
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Opera Scotland
"The real star was Hazel McBain whose vivid, animated and versatile performance engaged the audience even when she was only playing a minor role on stage, watching the action from a high window, engrossed and detached."
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Emily Hall SN
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"As Sharp Ears, the eponymous vixen, Hazel McBain uses her attractive tone resourcefully"
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Barry Millington The Evening Standard
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"Hazel McBain made a strong Sharp Ears, she clearly has great personality and projected this clearly along with a strongly focussed and finely shaped voice.....this was a wonderfully confident assumption, full of personality and charm and Hazel McBain certainly knew how to carry the title role in the show."
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Robert Hugill Planet Hugill
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"Hazel McBain's singing is developing nicely - a beautiful lyric soprano and a good actress, she is not the first performer to find that Servilia is a gift of a part."
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Opera Scotland
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"Hazel McBain’s Servilia is vocally willowy and agile"
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Kate Molleson The Herald
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"The role of Minerva, the hand guiding the reunion of the mortals, was beautifully sung and subtly acted by Hazel McBain."
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Opera Scotland