Emma Selway - mezzo-soprano
“Excellent performances also came from Mary Hegarty as Frasquita and Emma Selway as Mercedes.” (Carmen/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
Express & Star/September 2005
“Emma Selway makes a dignified Penelope.”
(Ulysses Comes Home/Birmingham Opera Company)
The Telegraph, May 2005
“..there are some intensely dramatic performances..Emma Selway as Penelope, faitfully waiting these 20 years, half-wishing, half-dreading her husband’s return.”
(Ulysses Comes Home/Birmingham Opera Company)
The Times, May 2005
“Emma Selway’s..restraint and poise in the final scene are touching.”
(Ulysses Comes Home/Birmingham Opera Company)
The Guardian, May 2005
“…three of the Valkyries (Emma Selway’s Waltraute, Ethna Robinson’s Schwertleite and Cara O’Sullivan’s Helmwige) were new. They made a formidable team.”
(Die Walküre/ENO)
Opera January 2003
“Impressive both vocally and for her plausibly Japanese bearing, was Emma Selway, with a main role in each piece, and rising to heights of dignified passion in Damask Drum” (Goehr’s Kantan and Damask Drum/Aldeburgh Festival)
Opera September 2001
“Emma Selway was a likeable Pauline.”
The Queen of Spades/WNO
Opera November 2000
"...but the laurels go to Emma Selway as Sesto. She conveyed the whole spectrum of human expression with poise and heartbreaking tenderness."
La Clemenza di Tito/Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Observer, October 1999
"Emma Selway's brightly focused Sesto, lovingly sculpting his arias of inner torment..." La Clemenza di Tito/Glyndebourne Touring Opera, The Times October 1999
"...Emma Selway's Sesto was..secure, even and liquid-toned. It is Sesto who is really the central character, and Selway's portrayal gave him just the right mix of dignity and vulnerability." La Clemenza di Tito/Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Guardian, October 1999
"Emma Selway's Sesto was devoted, anxious, full of passion." La Clemenza di Tito/Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Evening Standard, October 1999
“In her brief aria as the musician, Emma Selway again showed her class”
Manon Lescaut/Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Sunday Telegraph/July 1999
“Emma Selway warms into the weaker-willed Dorabella’s role.”
Così fan tutte/Glyndebourne on Tour
The Sunday Times/November 1998
“Emma Selway’s velvety mezzo has forcus and poise.”
Così fan tutte/Glyndebourne on Tour
The Times/November 1998
“…very competent performances from Emma Selway and Jane Irwin as the martyred Christian twins…
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastian/Hallé Orchestra
The Times/March 1997