Amanda Forbes Soprano

Hear Amanda in her new project RESOLVE on soundcloud!
https://soundcloud.com/resolve2019
for bookings and enquiries email [email protected]

'Green understands the needs of a solo voice over a ninety-minute span. But he could hardly function with a performer less talented than Amanda Forbes, less gifted with a vocal range from chest crooning to high soprano, or with a stage presence to match. Her performance was unforgettable.'
Stephen Walsh - The Arts Desk ***** The World's Wife

Amanda performed the title role in the world premiere of the opera The World's Wife by Tom Green and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. This opera for solo soprano and string quartet was composed specifically for Amanda's voice, and premiered at the Welsh National Opera.

'Amanda Forbes’s comic timing as the weary, eye-rolling Mrs Aesop was spot-on'
KIRSTEN MCTERNAN - The Times ****

Soprano and actress Amanda Forbes studied opera at London’s Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio. She recently created the roles of Leni and Fräulein Bürstner in the World Premiere of Philip Glass’s opera The Trial based on Franz Kafka’s novel, and performed the role of the Duchess in the UK premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s The Killing Flower for Music Theatre Wales at ROH Linbury studio.
Her album ‘White as Lilies’ focuses on her love of renaissance and baroque music.
In late 2017 Amanda performed the world premiere of a one woman opera composed for her voice by Tom Green, based on poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s set of poems ‘The World’s Wife’.

Her new project RESOLVE brings songs from across the ages into the 21st century with the help of pianist/arranger Christian Vaughan.

https://soundcloud.com/resolve2019

For booking and other enquiries, please email [email protected]

“Amanda Forbes is mesmerising as the coquettish Leni and Fräulein Bürstner.”
The Financial Times

."Anyone hearing the mellifluous soprano of Amanda Forbes might easily find themselves seduced" -British Theatre Guide