REVIEWS

Maya as Medousa, Riverside Studios, London.

MEDOUSA, a miniature opera

“Fabulously hot-blooded” (Neil Fisher - The Times)

“Wonderful, radiating baleful menace” (The Daily Telegraph)

“Exquisite and sublime!” (Christopher Mack, Director of New Voices - New Projects Paris)

Maya as Lua, The Moonflower

“Beautiful and inspiring voice that makes us wish to hear it again and again ...” (Mario Ferraro, composer of The Moonflower)

THE FISHERMAN and HIS wife

“Brilliantly voiced and characterised by Maya Sapone, singing both Fisherman and Wife with gusto and scrupulous distinction” (BachTrack Classical Music)

Maya as Lady Thiang, Curve Theatre, Leicester.

THE KING and i

“Maya Sapone as Lady Thiang gives a splendid performance” (The Public Reviews, Venue Cymru, Llandudn0)

“Maya Sapone in the part of Lady Thiang, who was spot on and has an incredibly lyrical voice” (Gazette Series, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham)

“Something Wonderful, mesmerisingly performed by Maya Sapone as the chief wife” (Gloucestershire Ech0)

“A fine job of highlighting the King’s good points with a touching performance of Something Wonderful” (The Public Reviews, New Theatre, Oxford)

“Striking voice” (The Oxford Time)

“An outstanding performance” (Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Hippodrome)

“A splendidly authoritarian chief wife delivers the lines amusingly and effectively and looks the part perfectly” (The Real Chris Sparkle Review)

“Excellent voice” (The Matlock Mercury Review, Theatre Royal Nottingham)

“Maya Sapone in the part of Lady Thiang, who was spot on and has an incredibly lyrical voice” (The Public Reviews, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton)

“Wonderful mezzo singing” (The Times)

“Beautifully sung by Maya Sapone” (Totally Theatre)

Clonic Mutations programme. Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007. 'Marseamour" live music score for the film L'Etoile de Mer. A classic surreal ﬁlm staring Man Ray’s wife Kiki. L’Étoile de mer is based on Robert Desnos’s poem ‘la place de l’étoile’. Desnos and Man Ray shared a view that the starﬁsh ‘inhabited liquid depths as well as heavenly reaches’. Through the use of alchemical and occult symbolism and distorted images, Man Ray sought to see beyond objective rationalism to a mystically transﬁgured world. López Figueroa’s wrote a poem as lyrics for a sensual and hypnotic vocal score that merges seamlessly a bolero with contemporary opera, in combination with live music and pre-recorded sounds. Sergio Lopez Figueroa, composer Tim Murray, conductor, The Clarion ensemble Maya Sapone, soprano Kate Ryder, piano Violins Helena Wood, Peter Graham, Kate Robinson, Ciaran McCabe Viola Jennifer Christie, Helen Goatly Cello Chris Allan, David Kadumukasa Bass Richard Pryce Percussion Robert Farrer,

Clonic Mutations programme. 'Mutantis' 2007 a music score for the film Tusalava. Clonic Mutations programme at the Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007. This unique tribal dance animation by New Zealand-born ﬁlm pioneer Len Lye was inﬂuenced by Australian aboriginal art and uses more than 4,400 drawings. The ﬁrst of Lye’s ﬁlms to be made during his time spent in the UK. Tusalava was unusual at the time of its premiere, and the combination of non-narrative and abstract elements remains a powerful cinematic experiment López Figueroa’s score sets solo improvisation sections for soprano against rhythmic textures in crescendo to match the playful energy of Lye’s wriggly, organic forms. Sergio Lopez Figueroa, composer Tim Murray, conductor The Clarion ensemble Maya Sapone, soprano Kate Ryder, piano Violins Helena Wood, Peter Graham, Kate Robinson, Ciaran McCabe Viola Jennifer Christie, Helen Goatly Cello Chris Allan, David Kadumukasa Bass Richard Pryce Percussion Robert Farrer,

CLONIC MUTATIONS, Tate Modern

“Outstanding” (The Guardian)

Other reviews

“An awe-inspiring sound” - The Magdalene Mysteries, Southwark Playhouse. (MusicOMH)

“Excellent » (Musical Pointers)

“Highly commended” (Performing Australian Music)

“A singing actress ... slinky and sexy ...” (Martin Anderson, Toccata Classics)

“A charming singer with superb communication and interpretative skills. In her voice there is warmth, color, irony, sarcasm, intelligence” (Marcello Abbado, pianist)

“Her agility is remarkable!” (Emmanuel Siffert, conductor)

“A rich harmonious voice, equally suited to Opera as it is to the Avant Garde. Her enthusiasm, well-honed improvisational instincts and professionalism make her a pleasure to work with” (Guy Pople, guitarist)