Miami Lyric Opera reaches a high point with 'Lucia'
Darynn Zimmer made an impressive company debut in the title role, displaying the requisite high voice, flexibility and dramatic range. Her 'Regnava nel silenzio' showed a pure tone and polished technique... (her) soprano soared in a thrilling account of the Act 2 sextet... (YouTube clip)
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Many rewards in Choral Society's Presentation of 'Requiem'
...Lukas Foss' 'Song of Songs' sung with rich and ringing tones by Darynn Zimmer... the soprano floating like a flower in a pond above a contrapuntal accompaniment... performed beautifully and knowledgeably... the fifth movement (Brahms)... sung with rich sweetness by Ms. Zimmer
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Opera Tampa Stages Alluring, Evocative 'Boheme'
Boheme lives through its characters...Darynn Zimmer as Mimi and Gregory Schmidt as Rodolfo, offer sensitive, understated solos and duets, notably, the ravishing 'O soave fanciulla'
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Counter-tenor Andreas Scholl, and sopranos Barbara Bonney and Darynn Zimmer shine on three new discs
This imaginatively crafted recital of rarely heard French melodies places Darynn Zimmer in the forefront of emerging young American sopranos. (CD Universe)
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Metro Lyric up to test of Rigoletto
Zimmer...should soon find...(her biography) bulging...She has an exceptionally clean coloratura, which sparkles on top....Undaunted, she made her exit on a clear high E....Only with such individual excellence could the underlying force of the father-daughter relationship be brought alive
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White Barn Music Fills the (double) Bill
Darynn Zimmer sang the demanding role of Estelle....by the time she....trilled a sugary ‘Merry Christmas,’ she’d exploded every weapon in her arsenal
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Choral Society Gives Unusual Work Its Due
Ms. Zimmer was quite simply ravishing. Her ‘In Trutina’...poised between modesty and desire, was splendid....And on the "goose bump scale"...her four bar melisma, ‘Dulcissime,’ was almost off the chart.
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A Soprano In Debut
Ms. Zimmer has a lovely voice - compact but amply powered; generally sweet in tone, but dark and sensuous when the music and text require those qualities...she conveys a song's essential spirit, both vocally and through her physical demeanor
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Bandanna proves well worth the effort
And Mona Morales (Darynn Zimmer), repentant from a past affair, tries to rebuild a shattered trust...Hagen has assembled a fine cast....(play sample)...(Amazon.com)
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