as SOLOIST with BLUEWATER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA in Beethoven’s “Ah, Perfido”

Soprano Laura Pedersen was featured in Beethoven’s early concert work  “Ah, Perfido”. With a dramatic text taken from an opera about Achilles, the aria’s female protagonist both rages and laments through a multi-stage journey. Pedersen’s imposing vocalism and sense of character fitted the music beautifully. The lengthy recitative was impassioned, while the songful cantabile had wisps of sorrow, and the powerful cabaletta brought this complex scene to an imposing close. Meyer and his players effectively conjured the storms and trickling rivulets over which Pedersen painted her sonic picture.

David Kulma, clevelandclassical.com