Amanda Forsythe’s collaborations with leading baroque ensembles have included Teseo (title role) with Philharmonia Baroque at the Tanglewood Festival, Alexander’s Feast with Tafelmusik, Iole in Hercules with the Handel and Haydn Society, Partenope (title role) and Poppea in Agrippina with Boston Baroque, Isabelle in Le Carnaval de Venise, Serpina in La serva padrona, Edilia in Almira, and the title roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Venus and Adonis, and Niobe for the Boston Early Music Festival. Many of these performances have been recorded commercially. She is also a regular soloist with Vancouver Early Music, Apollo’s Fire and Pacific Musicworks.
Ms. Forsythe sang Euridice on the recording of Charpentier’s La descente d'Orphée aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival which won the GRAMMY AWARD for Best Opera Recording. Her debut solo album of Handel arias "The Power of Love" with Apollo’s Fire was recently followed with the highly praised “Heavenly Bach”. She toured with the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, performing works based on the Orfeo myth, and subsequently recorded the role of Euridice in a new edition of Gluck’s Orfeo for the ERATO label. Her discography includes more than 25 albums and DVDs, many of them premiere recordings. Forthcoming discs include Handel’s Roman Cantatas with Opera Prima, Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and a solo Telemann album, both with the Boston Early Music Festival.
Equally at home on the concert platform and on the opera stage, in recent seasons Amanda Forsythe’s major concert engagements have included performances with the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Hong Kong Philharmonic, The New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, The Academy of Ancient Music, The St. Louis Symphony, Music of the Baroque, and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
Amanda Forsythe made her American stage debut with the Boston Early Music Festival, where her many roles have included Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea; Eolie in Circé (Desmarets); Angelica in Orlando Generoso (Campra); Isabelle in Le Carnaval de Venise (Campra); Serpina in La serva padrona; and Edilia in Almira, Königin von Castilien, for which she has received rave reviews. With Boston Baroque she has sung Poppea in Agrippina, Melissa in Amadigi, and the title roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Partenope. With Seattle Opera, she has sung Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and with Opera Philadelphia she recently made her role début as Handel’s Semele.
She made her European operatic debut in the role of Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, subsequently returning to perform Rosalia in L’equivoco stravagante, and Jemmy in Guillaume Tell, which were both released on DVD. At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, she has performed Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff, Manto in Niobe, Amour in Orphée, and most recently, Marzelline in Fidelio. Other European engagements include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky’s production at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Komische Oper in Berlin.
She has performed under the baton of Giovanni Antonini, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Matthew Halls, Thomas Hengelbrock, Nicholas Kraemer, Bernard Labadie, Susanna Mälkki, Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Sir Antonio Pappano, Martin Pearlman, Christophe Rousset, Jeannette Sorrell, Stephen Stubbs, and Jaap van Zweden. She has premiered opera productions by Gilbert Blin, Robert Carsen, Tobias Kratzer, and Graham Vick.
