PRESS/ACCLAiM
deniz in review
Read press and acclaim for Deniz's recent performances.
DENiZ UZUN
PARIS OPERA COMPETITION
semifinals
"Deniz Uzun who sang alongside Cecilia Bartoli in Zurichs’s production of Handel’s Semele under Christie and directed by Robert Carsen, puts the microphones to the test, without saturating the sound, and proving the quality of her voice and technique (and winning her ticket to Paris)."
olyrix
ELEKTRA
the third maid | salzburg festival
"There are around those four protagonists many supporting roles, servants, maids, who pass and who have one or two lines: all are in their place. In a festival like Salzburg there is no room for error in any choice of role. The maids of the first scene are really excellent, and we will mention the third maid of Deniz Uzun, with a beautiful projection, a large, meaty voice, that we had already noticed in Zurich where she sang Krista in The Makropoulos affair in fall 2019. We wrote about her: “(she) shows a freshness, a vocal and scenic presence, a very particular energy and intensity. One to be watched."
wanderer
SALOME
page | dallas symphony orchestra
"Deniz Uzun’s mezzo soprano was a welcome bit of brazen warmth as Queen Herodias’s page.“
texas classical review
"Mezzo-soprano Deniz Uzun gave us a spitfire but androgynous portrayal of the page, a pants role that is perhaps left open to be any youngster.“
north texas performing arts news
HANS GABOR BELDEVERE COMPETiTiON
winner | jurmala, latvia
"There were five others who won special jury prizes which translate into valuable engagements to opera houses around Europe, Russia and South Africa. The German mezzo-soprano Deniz Uzun was the most engaging of them and should, I felt, have captured one of the top prizes. Energetic and coquettish, she flirted her way through Rossini’s “Cruda sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri. And while the tessitura of the part of Isabella is much more suited to a contralto, Uzun proved herself splendidly agile as she dexterously sung the low F as well as the F two octaves higher.“
bachtrack
DiE SACHE MAKROPULOS
krista | opernhaus zürich
„As Krista, Deniz Uzun brought a sappy, orange-toned mezzo and coped admirably with the high-lying tessitura.“
operatraveller
"The young soprano Krista (in the Zurich version she can hold a candle to her idol Emilia with an impressively clearness and power in her voice: Deniz Uzun)"
tagblatt
"Deniz Uzun could prove again that she is a big win for the ensemble."
das opernmagazin
"Deniz Uzun: stunningly rebellious."
klasika plus
MANON
rosette | opernhaus zürich
"Deniz Uzun with her rich, dark mezzo-soprano and timbre which built a perfect base for the funny trio.“
international theatre reviews
SEMELE
ino | opernhaus zürich
"Ino was Deniz Uzun. I was impressed by the true alto quality of her voice, its depth and smoothness, and her great projection.“
bachtrack
"Deniz Uzun was dolled up for her role as Semele’s sister, Ino, and is a Zurich regular. She has a delightful voice and acts convincingly.“
seen and heard international
LA VERiTÁ iN CiMENTO
zelim | opernhaus zürich
"The young mezzo Deniz Uzun (in a pants role as Zelim) had an astonishing warmth and poise to her sound, making me eager to follow her budding career.“
seen and heard international
"The singers all excellent, and Deniz received the biggest applause, it was more the award of Prima inter pares, even if well deserved."
litteratur
"...and the lonely left Zelim (wonderful and ravishing and pitiful at the same time: Deniz Uzun the whole evening in a black anarchy-streetwear by Karin Jod) lets his depression out while singing the added aria from the Vivaldi opera "L´incronazione di Dario" full of sadness, though beautiful and excitingly melancholic."
arcimboldisworld
RONJA RÄUBERTOCHER
ronja | opernhaus zürich
"Positively everyone sings without exception understandably every word. The cast is filled with clear and expressive opera voices... In the center certainly Ronja and Birk, though the relative strenght of the voices is set by the voicetypes; Mezzosoprano for the girl and soprano for the boy. With Deniz Uzun and Florie Valiquette this works perfectly. Ronja has the overwhelming strength for her protest and primal scream in the spring forest, but also the golden sound of empathy."
der landbote
L'ENFANT ET LES SORTiLÈGES
l'enfant | opernhaus zürich
"The cast has known and unknown faces, who brought light to the evening and there was no role that had no musical and scenical presence... Deniz Uzun, born in Mannheim, already known from her performance as Ronja the Robber's Daughter, plays extremely believable the reblious child, with an expressive Mezzo Soprano she portrays touchingly the child's restrained emotions of the needs of the adolescence."
roccosound
LUCiA Di LAMMERMOOR
alisa | opernfestspiele münchen
"Also minor roles should not be ignored. The turkish Mezzosoprano Deniz Uzun is a big surprise of the evening. Her voice is huge and adheres in the ear. From her one would like to hear more in the future!"
klassik begeistert
LADY MACBETH OF MTENSK
sonyetka | opernhaus zürich
Of the minor roles, several stood out..particularly young alto newcomer Deniz Uzun, displaying a warm chest voice"
seen and heard international
"Listen up to Deniz Uzun with an erotic colored, dark Mezzosoprano in the role of Sonyetka."
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