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RECITAL REVIEWS
Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, Mezzo Soprano

Closing Recital, Christa Ludwig’s Brahms & Mahler Song Workshop,
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie, New York
"She was intent and pier-cing...Ms. Mitchell-Velasco sang with dark-hued sound and elegance." - Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

"...the most finished artist, sensitive to every nuance of the text..." - Wall Street Journal

Duo Recital with Noel Espiritu Velasco, tenor,
Abelardo Hall Recital Series,
University of the Philippines
"The novelty number of the recital was Manuel de Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas...the mezzo was a natural delight. Mitchell delivered the humorous side of Gustav Mahler in the Three Lieder entries (“A Little Legent” from the Rhein Region, “Spring Morning” and “Who Thought Up This Little Song”) and had the audience lustily cheering her." - Pablo Tariman, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Duo Recital with Noel Espiritu Velasco, tenor
Litchfield Performing Arts Series, Connecticut
"Their voices blended beautifully, a result of much singing together and similar techniques. Velasco's tenor voice ideally matched his wife's velvety mezzo-soprano in two Rossini duets. Both singers had notably clear diction in the several languages heard during the afternoon - Italian, French, German, English, and a Filipino dialect. They spoke "on the sound," as the voice teachers say... The singers had powerful voices, voices of operatic dimensions... Gigi Velasco floated a nice tone early on... The afternoon ended with opera, the music the Velascos do best. In the duet from La Gioconda, the softening of the dynamics toward the end and the final dying away of the sound was beautifully done. Intensity increased as the concert ended with some of the emotional music of Carmen, a high tension opera." - Arthur Pethybridge, The Register Citizen

Newport Music Festival, Newport Mansions, Rhode Island, July 2003
" The specialty concert recommended, ‘Amo, Amas, Amadeus,’ devoted to the music of Mozart, was incandescent, a late afternoon delight. The highlight of the concert was a recitative and rondo from the opera Idomeneo, marvelously sung by Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, mezzo-soprano. Reviewer’s grade: A. – Linda Phillips, Newport This Week

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