Anne Manson
Conductor
Anne Manson receives extensive coverage from leading US and European press organizations.
Recent Coverage:
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra: Tour with Dame Evelyn Glennie, Percussionist
September, 2009
"The conductor, Anne Manson proved to be a consummate artist, leading the group flawlessly through the melodic Spanish style songs... They brought impeccable technique and musicianship to their playing."
--Marvin Dickau
"The musicians performed with assurance, passion and precision... [The performance was] full of nuance, energy and expression."
--Joanne Villeneuve
"The ensemble is an incredible, disciplined group of musicians."
--Dale Bass
The Toronto Star, May 6, 2009
Anne Manson, conductor
Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Canadian Opera Company
“Dark and Delicious Mix of Old and New on an Opera Stage”
“The music is beautifully rendered....The orchestra, led by Anne Manson (the Manitoba Chamber orchestra’s new music director), breathed in unison with Britten’s gently rising and falling music.
All of these elements combine to deliver an opera experience that’s close to being magical in this Midsummer Night’s Dream....one can simply sit back and marvel at the careful stage and musical direction behind this dark and delicious mix of old and new on an opera stage.”
--John Terauds, The Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/629712
The Dora Mavor Moore Award honors excellence in Theatre, Dance & Opera in Toronto
Winning for Outstanding Musical Direction
... Conductor Anne Manson!
Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Canadian Opera Company
“The music is beautifully rendered....The orchestra, led by Anne Manson (the Manitoba Chamber orchestra’s new music director), breathed in unison with Britten’s gently rising and falling music.
All of these elements combine to deliver an opera experience that’s close to being magical in this Midsummer Night’s Dream....one can simply sit back and marvel at the careful stage and musical direction behind this dark and delicious mix of old and new on an opera stage.”
--John Terauds, The Star
Anne Manson Named Music Director of Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra today announced the appointment of Anne Manson as its Music Director and Principal Conductor. The Washington-based conductor first came to Winnipeg to work with the Orchestra in 2006. Since then, Manson has led the MCO in concerts at the great venues in Canada and the United States.......
Remembrance Concert Tour: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Music of Bartok, Ravel, Klein, Skalkottas, Gomidas (dedicated to all victims of genocide)
“...conducted with crispness and verve by Anne Manson.”
--San Francisco Chronicle
“Manson led the solid, polished orchestra in robust and committed performances.”
--Orange County Register
“In all, the program represented a fascinating concept whose real message was one of widespread ethnic preservation and suffering in the 20th century rather than the work of a single composer. With Anne Manson leading the Manitobans at a ripping tempo, Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances demonstrated that the Hungarian composer was working on a course parallel with Gomidas.”
--Los Angeles Times
Juliard Opera Center: Our Town
"....Anne Manson
-- MusicalAmerica.com
"Anne Manson conducted the performance with great skill and sensitivity."
-- Broadway Stars
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
“The MCO finished the evening with a stunning performance of Bartok’s folk-inspired Divertimento for Strings. Under Manson’s vigorous direction, the orchestra dug right into the generously meaty string writing, with concertmaster Karl Stobbe and principal cellist Yuri Hooker stepping up with gutsy and sonorous solos.”
Vanessa, by Samuel Barber
“Thanks to…the urgent and sensitive conducting of Anne Manson, in her company debut, Vanessa emerges as an authentic American masterpiece.”
“Ms. Manson, who in 1994 was the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in an opera at the Salzburg Festival, has broken into the
“Anne Manson (in her company debut) leads the City Opera orchestra in a voluptuous, beautifully detailed reading of Barber’s perfumed score, with expressionistic ripples and flights from the winds.”
“Anne Manson led a nuanced, airy performance.”
“Anne Manson made every moment arrive with unmistakably clear intentions.”
The
Glimmerglass Opera
Orphée, by Philip Glass
“…Kaye Voyce’s costumes, complete with surrealistic touches, were beautifully appropriate to the work. So was Anne Manson’s conducting, which maintained the pulse of the opera and kept the orchestral writing clear.”
The
Orphée aux Enfers, by Jacques Offenbach
“The American conductor Anne Manson has stacked up some significant achievements in the international opera world. In 1994, she became the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival…This breakthrough came three years before this obdurately all-male orchestra hired its first female player.”
“Her
“The good news is the splendid energies of these young singers and dancers, all generated from Anne Manson’s well-organized and pointed conducting. Her pit orchestra played with a unified resonance I am not used to hearing from these Juilliard ensembles of would-be superstars.”
“For many, the chief attraction was the conductor, Anne Manson. She untied every rhythmic and melodic knot of this naughty opéra bouffon with flair that buoyed both a splendid orchestra and an eager cast. She imposed fast tempos that never seemed rushed, transparent textures that never seemed precious. She sustained propulsion without leaving anyone breathless. It was an elegant achievement.”
The Financial Times
New York Times, November 6, 2007
"Ms. Manson, who in 1994 was the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in an opera at the Salzburg Festival, has broken into the New York opera scene, and it’s about time. She approached “Vanessa” not like some neo-Romantic artifact but as a substantive, intelligent and worthy contemporary work."
- Anthony Tommasini
Opera News, November, 2007
"[Anne Manson], making her New York opera debut, projected quiet but unmistakable authority and led her musicians with gestures of restrained elegance."