Some people had been won over by his sheer persistence, others by his performances in the tiny mass meetings, where he led call-and-response spirituals in a distinctively jaunty tenor, marked by a hint of calypso syncopation".
Brian Jagde's robust tenor marks him as a talent to watch in the future.
The tenor Mark Bleeke sang with potent conviction in the title role.
The first character we meet is Piet the Pot, the land's official wine taster, here the robust tenor Mark Schowalter in a poignantly comic performance.
With Andras Schiff's extraordinary Schumann recital at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday still echoing in a listener's memory, the tenor Mark Padmore and the fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout offered a very different view of the composer on Wednesday evening at Zankel Hall.
The next of these was tenor Mark Padmore's ringing entrance as Uriel, and when the soprano Rosemary Joshua (singing Raphael) opened her mouth, we were truly in the Garden of Eden.
When the audience began filing in, the tenor Mark Padmore, singing the part of the Evangelist, was already seated in the middle, head bent, the picture of dejection: this telling of the Passion seemed part of its immediate aftermath.
Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"; Maxwell Herman, boy soprano; Tami Petty, soprano; Kurt Alakulppi, tenor; Mark Rehnstrom, baritone; Charles Brown, bass; Eric Lamp; stage director; Jonathan Dudley, music director.
"Bach: St. Matthew Passion" (Archiv) — Paul McCreesh uses only eight singers here, including the tenor Mark Padmore, who can switch instantly from the breathless recitatives of the Evangelist to the guilt-drenched lyricism of the solo arias.
The British director Katie Mitchell, in collaboration with the tenor Mark Padmore, the actor Stephen Dillane, and the pianist Andrew West, had the excellent idea of creating a theatre piece around Beckett's intense relationship with "Winterreise," weaving his poetry and prose into a live performance of the cycle.
