Rinaldo / Landestheater Linz 2022
“Angela Simkin is a highly emotional Rinaldo, thrilling in her furious coloratura.”
Opera Online
“In the title role, Angela Simkin, newly engaged in Linz, is a mezzo convincing both emotionally and stylistically.”
Online Merker
Phoebe Meryll: The Yeomen of the Guard / The Grange Festival 2022
“Angela Simkin, with her full and nuanced mezzo-soprano, tremendous accent and perfect demeanour for the role is a first-rate Phoebe.”
Music OMH
“Angela Simkin’s Phoebe was delivered with pristine clarity…”
Opera
“There were some nuanced individual performances…Angela Simkin as Phoebe Meryll, whose singing was sweet and whose face was a picture as she watched her dreams unravel.”
The Spectator
“The most subtle of the songs is for Phoebe, the daughter of the Tower’s Sergeant Meryll, as she taunts the head jailer in “Were I thy bride”, its magical orchestration and modulations surely paying a tribute to Mozart. Angela Simkin delivers it charmingly…”
The Telegraph
Herdswoman: Jenufa / Royal Opera, London 2021
“There’s exceptional casting among the smaller roles…former Jette Parker Young Artists Angela Simkin as a saucy prancer at the wedding…”
The Arts Desk
Jommelli: Il Vologeso / Signum CD 2021
“Angela Simkin as fierce Lucilla rises to the demanding writing…”
The Guardian
“Angela Simkin provides a splendidly believable portrait of outrage in her Act 11 ‘Partirò, se vuoi così.’”
Opera Now
Hermia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream / The Grange Festival 2021
“Eleanor Dennis’ Helena and Angela Simkin’s Hermia squabble with rollicking boisterousness…”
The Financial Times
“…with Angela Simkin’s Hermia and Eleanor Dennis’ Helena revealing exceptionally fine voices.”
Music OMH
“…Angela Simkin a spirited Hermia.”
Opera Today
“…there’s a tremendous physical as well as vocal energy about the four quarrelling lovers…”
The Times
Mercédès: Carmen / Welsh National Opera
“Harriet Eyley and Angela Simkin blended ideally as Frasquita and Mercédès…”
Bachtrack
“Harriet Eyley (Frasquita) and Angela Simkin (Mercédès) made attractive and vivacious companions of Carmen, singing and acting with pleasing commitment and judgement.”
Seen and Heard International
“There’s strong support from Harriet Eyley and Angela Simkin (Frasquita and Mercédès)…”
The Spectator
Nancy: Albert Herring / Royal College of Music, London
“…Angela Simkin’s ravishingly sung Nancy…”
Classical Source
“Nicholas Morton (Sid) and Angela Simkin (Nancy) offered some lovely moments of lyrical expansion.”
Opera
Messiah / Classical Opera
“Mezzo-soprano Angela Simkin has a lovely dark, burnished alto voice with a nice firmness in the middle and lower ranges which will, I think, make her a strong interpreter of the role. She sang a finely musical account, constantly turning in beautifully shaped phrases, and in the showier Guadagni sections brought out a superb technical ability too.”
Planet Hugill
“Angela Simkin’s velvety mezzo has immense promise…”
The Times
Teseo: Arianna a Creta / London Handel Festival
“Angela Simkin tackled Teseo’s vocal flights fearlessly, with a pleasingly mellow mezzo timbre.
Financial Times
“…very strongly sung by Angela Simkin…”
Opera Now
“…very well sung here by Angela Simkin.”
Opera
“Most challenging of all is the role of the heroic Teseo, written for the star castrato Carestini and here sung by Angela Simkin; she shirks nothing, keeping her head while the notes gather thick and fast all around.”
The Stage
Iside: Giove in Argo / London Handel Festival
“There are outstanding performances from Angela Simkin’s traumatised Iside…”
The Guardian
“Angela Simkin’s Iside was brilliantly strong and characterful throughout…”
Opera Now
“The standout performances are the three women: Angela Simkin deploying her rich mezzo as the increasingly deranged Iside…”
The Times
“At such times it’s exciting to look out for future stars, and in Angela Simkin we have one. A mezzo of rich velours and substantial range and power, she already has an impressive CV and is destined for great things.”
What’s On Stage
Oreste / Royal Opera, London, at Wilton’s Music Hall
“Angela Simkin, compelled to mutter and twitch throughout in response to the furies in Oreste’s head, has lustre…”
The Arts Desk
“In the title role, mezzo-soprano Angela Simkin has a lustrous voice, full of expression …”
The Financial Times
“Simkin moulds phrases and virtuosity into a seamlessly expressive whole, which is often all the more affecting for its restraint.
The Guardian
“Angela Simkin sang the title role with a focused, powerful mezzo…”
Opera
“Angela Simkin’s plush mezzo, reminiscent of a young Alice Coote, shone in the slower, lamenting numbers.”
The Sunday Times
“providing attractive and accomplished virtuosic singing.”
The Telegraph
“Angela Simkin’s Oreste, crazed newcomer to the island ruled by the thug Toante, keeps her dark, throbbing mezzo strong and reliable.”
The Times
“Angela Simkin’s show-saving turn as a distracted, self-harming Oreste. Simkin’s mezzo is deliciously attuned to Handel’s style…”
WhatsOnStage
Lucilla: Il Vologeso / Classical Opera
“…we also had a second mezzo of sensual quality in Angela Simkin, joining the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the start of next season and plangent as Lucio’s rejected fiancee whose magnanimity produces an unlikely volte face at the end.
The Arts Desk
“Angela Simkin’s darker mezzo cut a noble figure as Lucilla, singing with beautiful warmth.”
Bachtrack
“Angela Simkin sang Lucilla with charming demureness which elicited compassion for her situation as the intended bride whom Vero spurns.”
Classical Source
As Berenice, Gemma Summerfield’s soprano was rich, rounded and sumptuous, as was Angela Simkin’s mezzo-soprano as Lucilla, though this was also possessed of a more forthright edge.”
Music OMH
“…the mellow richness of her mezzo declared the strength of her love for Lucio, and made the somewhat brittle volte-face – when Lucilla puts aside her dented pride and forgives the irresolute Emperor – more credible than it might have been.”
Opera
“Angela Simkin, who joins Royal Opera’s Young Artists next season, brought a generous mezzo warmth to Lucilla…”
Sunday Express
Concepción: L’heure espagnole / RCMIOS
“There are clearly some splendid young voices at the RCM. I enjoyed the array of excellent young women – including Angela Simkin a glamorous and seductive Concepción, both vocally and otherwise.”
Instant Encore
Madame la Rose: La Gazzetta / RCIMOS
“Angela Simkin made a poised and soignée Madama la Rose who runs the Hotel and seemed to spend a lot of time soothing her crazy guests, But she too gets a solo moment and Simkin (experienced in Handel and G&S) showed that she could shine in Rossini too.”
Planet Hugill
The Angel: The Demon / Chelsea Opera Group
“As the Angel, the aptly-named Angela Simkin excels, round of voice and absolutely beautiful of sound.”
Seen and Heard International
“Angela Simkin, vocally lustrous as The Angel.”
The Sunday Times
“There was strong support from Angela Simkin’s implacable Angel…”
The Times
Tebaldo: Don Carlo / Royal Opera, London
“Angela Simkin is a poised, bright Tebaldo…”
Classical Source
“One other last-minute substitution deserves mention: Angela Simkin’s jump-in as a gleamingly-sung, lively Tebaldo, a credit to the Jette Parker programme.”
Opera
“Angela Simkin was a fine Tebaldo…”
Seen and Heard International
“In purely vocal terms, there was much to enjoy. Andrea Mastroni, David Junghoon Kim and Angela Simkin made their mark in small roles.”
The Telegraph
“With strong support from Pohl’s handsome, expressive Posa, Semenchuk’s ferocious Eboli and Angela Simkin’s perky Tebaldo, there is much to admire.”
The Times
Meg Page: Falstaff / The Grange Festival
“…a gleefully energetic stage presence with a twinkle in the eye and a vivid, colourful tonal palette in the voice.”
Bachtrack
“Angela Simkin’s warm-toned Meg…”
Financial Times
“Angela Simkin’s lively and loveable Meg completed an excellent quartet of ladies.”
Music OMH
“…Angela Simkin’s fleshy toned Meg…”
Opera
“…Angela Simkin’s glimmering, expressive Meg…”
Opera Now
Flora Bervoix: La traviata / Royal Opera, London
“Jette Parker Young Artist Angela Simkin continues to impress as Flora.”
The Arts Desk
“…Angela Simkin, a newcomer to the Jette Parker scheme, made a fine fist of Flora.“
Seen and Heard International
“…there were arresting cameos from two of the Royal Opera’s apprentices, Angela Simkin (Flora) and Yuriy Yurchuk (Douphol).”
The Telegraph
Gala Opera Concert / Ten Tors Orchestra
“Angela Simkin was a joy to hear and produced beautiful tone and had a control and richness of sound that shone out in her arias Dido’s Lament and ‘Che faro senza Euridice.”
Plymouth Herald
Flosshilde: Das Rheingold / Royal Opera, London
“…the three Rhinemaidens, Lauren Fagan, Christina Bock and Angela Simkin got the singing off to an excellent start, the three voices buoyant and fresh, and blending beautifully.”
The Arts Desk
“Lauren Fagan, Christina Bock and Angela Simkin made for an exceptionally melodic and vicious trio of Rhinemaidens…”
Bachtrack
“…the three Rhinemaidens, Lauren Fagan, Christina Bock and Angela Simkin blend beautifully and frolic with ease.”
The Guardian
