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Her brief but powerful scene upbraiding her beloved was sung by soprano Morgan Balfour, whose crystal-clear tone conveyed a broad palette of emotional and vocal colors.

...die australische Sopranistin Morgan Balfour, die zusammen mit dem lyrischen Tenor Emanuel Tomljenovic ein Traumduo im Domine Deus bildete: zwei wunderbar timbrierte, biegsame Stimmen...

[...the Australian soprano Morgan Balfour, who together with the lyric tenor Emanuel Tomljenovic formed a dream duo in Domine Deus: two wonderfully timbred, flexible voices...]

She delighted with a lovely purity of tone and sympathetic expression, from sweet simplicity for the early 20th century song The Little Road to Bethlehem to the soaring notes of Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night).

Morgan Balfour charmed the audience with her smile and lustrous tone. Her natural florid passages and new ornamentation in Handel’s ‘Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion’ from ‘Messiah’ demonstrated excellent technique and attention to historically informed practice. The rendition of Handel’s ‘Eternal Source of Light Divine’ for soprano, sackbut and orchestra was the climax of the concert. Lofty sustained melodies and trills executed artfully by Morgan Balfour and sackbut player Ros Jorgensen conveyed a mutual feeling of reverence.