Vespertine…is making opera unfamiliar again in all the best ways—i.e., surprising.
The Stranger – Rape as Metaphor by Rebecca Brown
Conductor and Tenor
Vespertine…is making opera unfamiliar again in all the best ways—i.e., surprising.
The Stranger – Rape as Metaphor by Rebecca Brown
“You hear the drunkenness, the hurrying horse, the spinning, the horror and doom in Britten’s superb score, well-played under conductor Jeremiah Cawley”
Seattle Times – Vespertine Company is Small but Mighty in ‘Lucretia’ by Phiippa Kiraly
Fog and Screaming by Jen Graves
The only sound is a monklike chanting that plays over everything; paired with [Erin Elyse Burns’s] silent scream, it’s calming and disquieting at the same time.
“All were conducted with enthusiasm and precision by Jeremiah Cawley, one of the Directors of the group. Kudos to Mr. Cawley for his selection of contrasting, interesting and appealing works to share with the public.”
“Cawley has rounded up a host of Seattle’s best young musical talent for the concert.”
“Singers Shawna Avinger, Daniel Brylow, Jeremiah Cawley, Danya Clevenger and Kathea Yarnell are the quintet who make the whole thing soar.”
“In the end, for all the variety of its borrowings, what resulted was a strong, unified and strikingly individual utterance of unambiguous beauty.”