Early Music Review: Ambronay Festival 2025

There is indeed much pure beauty in the voice, as was demonstrated perhaps above all in Strozzi’s ‘Lagrime mie’, a miniature drama in its own right strategically placed at the heart of the programme. Here, extraordinarily powerful vocal outpourings vied with passages of exquisitely drawn mezza voce singing of great delicacy, words, clearly articulated, tumbled out unstoppably or were lovingly caressed.

Olyrix: Grande pompe pour Pompeo Magno au TCE

Mariana Flores incarne Issicratea avec un grand savoir faire en matière de récit. Devant se défendre des assauts de Sesto et de Claudio, sa voix percute dans une émission acérée. Elle convoque la douceur lorsqu’elle s’adresse à son fils ou lorsqu’elle pleure son mari Mitridate, dans un abandon touchant.

Classique News: Pompeo Magno, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Soprano Mariana Flores produced a passionate, emotionally compelling and expressively strong interpretation as Mitridate’s wife and Pompeo’s prisoner, Issicratea, presenting her as courageous, haughty and at times even domineering with a noble bearing.