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CD MCGONAGALL-LIEDER - CHALLENGE RECORDS

Review by Wil Zenhorst, Mania - April 26th 2013

"Zuidam places the texts in an impressive space of sound with an important role for the piano duo Post&Mulder. These make the bridge to the text which is sung in an insinuating and impressive way by the Belgian soprano Katrien Baerts."

BERG & ZEMLINSKY, FESTIVAL DE SAINTES

Review by Séverine Garnier, Sud-Ouest - July 16th 2012

"Sensual Katrien Baerts" "The soprano Katrien Baerts, powerful and sensual in the "Lieder" by Alban Berg, evolved in a setting of great expertise: Het Collectief …"

MCGONAGALL-LIEDER, MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN 'T IJ

Review by Richard Stuivenberg, allesoverkunst.nl - May 12th 2012

"At the beginning of the forth movement soprano Katrien Baerts, who has been singing work by Rob Zuidam more often, emptied the glass with 90 ping pong balls and angrily crashed some of them. She delivered a marvelous performance: she insinuatingly and brightly sang the poetry of William McGonagall in a sparkling version by Zuidam."

CANCIONES DEL ALMA, NTR ZATERDAGMATINEE

Review by Kasper Jansen, NRC Handelsblad - April 2nd 2012

"It is a fascinating monodrama for a high soprano - the fantastic Belgian Katrien Baerts - and deserves a staged performance with subtitling because of it's mystic atmosphere..."


Interview with Rob Zuidam by Joep Stapel, NRC Handelsblad - April 2nd 2012

"Katrien Baerts has a fantastic voice, but most stunning is the fact that I don't need to explain her anything about text interpretation, she reads really well what's written between the lines." … "Canciones del alma is like a stage in the Tour-de-France with eight mountain passes. But she has done a great job: hail."

CD SUSTER BERTKEN - ATTACCA

Review by Erik Voermans, Het Parool - May 2nd 2012

"But the finest of all is the next movement, 'Mi quam een schoon geluit', where soprano Katrien Baerts steals people's hearts in the role of Berta, with very soft and very yet very intensely sung phrases which are totally embedded in thin, extremely transparant sounds from the ensemble. … In 'Hemelsche opclimminghe' Katrien Baerts is stealing the limelight as well, now with a full, open soprano-sound."


Review by Anthony Fiumara, Trouw - January 31st 2012

"The young soprano Katrien Baerts is an incredible singer, who interprets the ecstatic assumption of her role sublimely."


Review by Wil Zenhorst, Mania - September 24th 2011

"In wonderful thin vocal lines Katrien Baerts interprets the texts of Suster Bertken, who leaves behind her earthly being."


Review by Muziek Centrum Nederland - July 29th 2011

"Wonderful to listen to, splendidly executed."

QUEEN ELISABETH COMPETITION

Interview Stamp Media - June 2nd 2011

Interviews Cobra - May 2011

Interview "Belang van Limburg" - February 22nd 2011

RAGE D'AMOURS, RESIDENTIE ORKEST

Documentary "The Making of" - January 7th 2012

Review by Eric Wisse - December 14th 2010

"Am still vibrating after the fantastic and intense performance of last Sunday in The Hague. I didn't know what happened to me. So much talent gathered, so much rage, I was carried along by the whole of sounds and images until I seemed to transcend myself, af the moment when the bird after the end flies by in the background.
Your vocal dominance made a strong impression, such a crescendo in the height, swelling and decreasing...the wickerwork of barning sounds, so organically, story-telling and full of drama... You sang the impossible and made poetry with the orchestra.

I know this is also the result of working very hard (although I still wonder if you are not secretly a group of Gods and angels). But don't forget what might happen to the listener, who suddenly gets involved...this! ;)"

SUSTER BERTKEN, NTR ZATERDAGMATINEE

Review by Frederike Berntsen, De Telegraaf - December 6th 2010

"While Claessens is piling stones - a symbolic start of Bertken's hermitage - at the feet of Katrien Baerts, this soprano transforms into the mystic from Utrecht. Dressed in a white robe and brown jacket she sings herself, dramatically high and oppressive, loose from her eartly being. Her thin and meditative vocal lines are wonderful."


Review by Frits van der Waa, Volkskrant - December 6th 2010

"Katrien Baerts here glorifies with a pristine and enchanting sound, which is unmistakably based on a strong technical base. Baerts will be needing this next weekend, because next to Suster Bertken she will also be performing an important part in Rage d'amours, which will know two concert performances in The Hague."


Review by Erik Voermans, Het Parool - December 6th 2010

"The music is magnificent, soprano Katrien Baerts sings the role of Bertken beautifully."

LUNCH CONCERT, CONCERTGEBOUW

Review by Jordi Kooiman, operamagazine.nl - February 18th 2010

"When Katrien Baerts and Matevz Kadiz play a scene from Les Mamelles de Théresias by Poulenc, it's drawing everyone's attention. Therewith we have named the peak of this concert. With her funny appearence and clear voice (what a height) Baerts convinces everyone."

ALBERT HERRING, KEES VAN BAARENZAAL

Review by Mark Duijnstee, operanederland.nl - January 17th 2010

"The Belgian coloratura soprano Katrien Baerts thrills and twitters splendidly as the chaste Miss Wordsworth and is comical in her scene in the second act."

INTERVIEWS OPERA DEBUT

Interview "Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal" - January 24th 2009

Interview "Belang van Limburg" - January 12th 2009

OPERA RECITAL, SNEEK

Review by Gerben Bergstra, Friesch Dagblad - October 11th 2008

"... but also deeply serious as in Bellin's aria where Julia thinks of her Romeo. Hereby the soprano Katrien Baerts left a strong impression ... Humurous was the feminist aria 'No mister husband' by which the soprano Katrien Baerts shone again."