Sunday’s Meleagro was sung in a trousers role by soprano Morgan Balfour, who right from the outset wowed the audience with her brilliant coloratura. Balfour’s voice is rich in color and her technique is impeccable. This is a young singer to watch!
Young Brisbane soprano Morgan Balfour, blessed with a name, a voice and a stage presence destined to go far, spread her own web of enticement with a bracket of songs full of wise counsel.
A young singer in the midst of all this might have been eclipsed, but not so soprano Morgan Balfour. With a lovely, highly listenable voice and outstanding responsiveness to word and mood, she was thoroughly wonderful in songs by Walton, Britten and Prokofiev.
Morgan Balfour sang with an attractive, clear voice with a particularly bright upper register.