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Gli Uccellatori, Teatro Verdi, Martina Franca,
Italy 01.08.23
Fra tutti spicca senza dubbio Bryndis Gudjónsdóttir (La contessa Armelinda), sfolgorante soprano islandese, sguardo magnetico e acuti pirotecnici, che fa sfoggio di un amalgama timbrico scintillante e levigato. È la star della produzione e, di certo, se ne sentirà parlare.
Among all, Bryndis Gudjónsdóttir (The Countess Armelinda) undoubtedly stands out, a dazzling Icelandic soprano, who amazes the audience with a balanced, smooth, though brilliant timbre and high notes like fireworks. She was definitely the star of the production and we will surely hear a lot about her.
Attilio Cantore - Musicpaper 08.08.23
https://www.musicpaper.it/rossini-e-gassmann-in-valle-ditria/
Candide in Wunderino Arena
Kiel, 18.06.23
Die isländische Sopranistin Bryndis Gudjonsdottir feuerte bravourös Koloratur- und Leuchtraketen in den künstlich geschaffenen Zuschauerraum – nicht nur im berühmtem Feuerwerk von „Glitter And Be Gay“. Ihre Cunegonde war zugleich notorisch amoralische Leit- wie sympathische Herzensfigur.
The Icelandic soprano Bryndis Gudjonsdottir brilliantly fired coloratura and flares into the artificially created auditorium - not only in the famous fireworks of "Glitter And Be Gay". Her Cunegonde was both a notoriously amoral leading figure and a sympathetic heart figure.
Christian Strehk - Kieler Nachrichten - 18.06.23
https://www.kn-online.de/kultur/regional/wunderino-arena-kiel-candide-von-bernstein-in-der-loriot-fassung-YD4YASIV6RENLI3JTW6ZTTIUPI.html
Recital in Espacio Turina, Seville,
Spain 03.03.23
Icelandic soprano Bryndís Gudjónsdóttir reaffirmed the arguments that won her the first prize of the competition last November. We are dealing with a light lyric soprano possessing an unusually wide and powerful voice for her voice type, where it is normal to have voices with a narrow range. However, in the case of the Icelander, her ease in moving securely in the upper register (the shining Mi and Fa that crowned O Zittre nicht) and displaying cascades of coloratura, combined with a voice of ample volume and width in the middle, is remarkable. Purely technical issues are perfectly resolved: clear emission, precise articulation, perfect projection without any throat or nasal adherence, impeccable intonation, with clean and correct interval jumps. This was demonstrated in the most pyrotechnic pieces, such as in the aria of Mitridate or the well-known passage of Candide. Another matter is the more expressive singing, the attention to legato, the careful phrasing based on regulators, issues that only appeared somewhat in the Icelandic songs, which are more introspective.
Andrés Moreno Mengíbar from Diario de Seville
https://www.diariodesevilla.es/ocio/Gudjonsdottir-ASAO_0_1771325010.html
Recital in Espacio Turina, Seville
Spain, 03.03.23
Guðjónsdóttir guided it [O Zittre nicht] with total confidence, as if it were nothing; but in the middle, she had also given, to start, an extensive coloratura. Her high notes reverberated in the hollow and -for her- small acoustics of the Turina.
[...] The recital contained only eight numbers, almost all of them "life or death". The second one is from a rarely programmed Mozart opera, 'Mitridate, re di Ponto', and the aria 'Al destin, che la minaccia', also because, as we said above, it includes a terrible high E, prepared to make a recital sink. The Icelander sang it again without difficulty, with fullness and it even seemed to us that, in a brighter way, with less dryness (the hall is already dry, and even more so for that volume of high notes).
The Russian song 'Solovey' by Aleksandr Alyabyev, composed around 1825, was unknown. Being called 'nightingale' and with a range like Guðjónsdóttir's, we can imagine the succession of unreachable notes it presented, ending in a tremendous D.
[...]In this lyrical field, three Icelandic songs by unknown authors undoubtedly stood out, which brought out a full balance of the voice in her, rounding out the register, sweetening her color, and making us feel her full identification with this music.
Finally, she decided to close with the most well-known, lively and light piece from Bernstein's 'Candide', a "Valentine's Day card", as the composer called it, where she particularly stood out for her more relaxed interpretation, as if she had stepped out of the concert screen to sing to family and friends. Naturally, this ode to luxury and jewels, parodying the aria of the jewels from Gounod's 'Faust', had to end with a genuine pearl necklace like the three impossible E flat notes that the Icelandic soprano strung together with the precision of a Tiffany jeweler.
Carlos Tarín, ABC de Seville
https://sevilla.abc.es/queplan/sevilla/conciertos/gran-certamen-voces-sevillano-falta-solo-publico-20230304181610-nts.html?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F
Recital in Salurinn Concerthall,
Iceland, 02.10.22
Soprano Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir started the concert with the Icelandic lieders, Kall sat undir Kletti by Jórunna Viðar, then she sang Fuglinn í fjörunni by Jón Þórarinsson and then Farfuglarnir by Elísabet Jónsdóttir.
Her interpretation was breathtaking, full of emotion, and the voice itself was bright and melodious, but at the same time very euphonious. The same thing can be said about other songs she sang later in the program.
Jónas Sen, Fréttablaðið, Icelandic newspaper
https://jonas-sen.com/2022/10/08/draugagangur-leirburdur-og-perlur/
Die Zauberflöte, Reaktorhalle, München
Germany, 2021
[...] muss man sich nicht nur vor den kristallinen Spitzentönen der isländischen Eis-Königin Bryndís Guðjónsdottir und ihren Drei Damen auf dem Hoverboard in Acht nehmen."
[...]you have to watch out for the Cristal High notes of the Icelandic Ice-Queen Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir and her three ladies on the Hoverboard.
Klaus Kalchschmid, Süddeutsche Zeitung, München
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/oper-einsam-in-einer-gespaltenen-welt-1.5292464
