PETER LINDSKOOG, BARITONE
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Albuquerque News Journal
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
"“Lucia di Lammermoor” is replete with characteristic melody, offering roles only those of the highest vocal caliber should attempt.
Baritone Peter Lindskoog immediately sets the bar for vocal excellence that defines this production. A veteran of several past OSW productions, Lindskoog dominates the stage in the first scene both with a stentorian voice and autocratic stage presence, as Lucia's bully brother Enrico."
TOSCA
The Albuquerque Journal
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
“Saturday night in the KiMo Theatre, Opera Southwest offered its take on "Tosca," …it assembled a strong trio of singers …Peter Lindskoog as Baron Scarpia, the chief of police.
Lindskoog's Scarpia was a pointed portrayal of menace. Shaped with vocal solidity and sure dramatic moves, Lindskoog conveyed the villain's amoral ruthlessness. Tosca's multiple knife thrusts, added drama to Scarpia's death."
by: Joanne Sheehy Hoover
The Times-Picayune
Monday, October 8, 2007
“The cast is as solid vocally as it's production is conceptualized.... The boldest voice of the night came from Peter Lindskoog as Baron Scarpia. With booming command the baritone found the richness in the music, hidden beneath the lust and malice of the evil Baron. His bold statement declaring his creed in the first Act's "Te Deum" was gripping.”
by: Theadore P. Mahne
Tulsa World
Monday, October 8, 2007
“As the show's villain Scarpia, Peter Lindskoog did an extraordinary job of conjuring up the character’s casual malevolence. He sings the role with commanding authority and conversational ease. His aria “Va Tosca,” in which Scarpia happily imagines how he will bend her to his sadistic will, is tossed off almost nonchalantly – a confident, condescending chuckle at the start, then quietly building to its blasphemous climax amid the chorus’ performance of the “Te Deum.” Lindskoog makes Scarpia’s presence so dominating that one almost expects to see him show up some where during the final act, to laugh derisively over the final twist in his plot to destroy his romantic rival and the woman who dared to defy him.”
by: James Watts
BILLY BUDD
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Pittsburgh Opera hits high-water mark with 'Billy Budd'"
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
Opera News - In Review
“…the production is blessed with fine principle singers. Peter Lindskoog is the very personification of the bumbling Forester with a handsome, fine-grained baritone.”
by: Scott Cantrell
MADAME BUTTERFLY
Tulsa World
“Peter Lindskoog continues his string of fine performances in the role of the consul Sharpless; his work in the second act “letter” scene, as he tries to explain to Cio-Cio San that Pinkerton has married someone else, is excellent.”
by: James Watts
Albuquerque News Journal
“The solid baritone Peter Lindskoog made a sympathetic Sharpless”
by: - Joanne Sheehy Hoover
RIGOLETTO
Albuquerque News Journal
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006
"Opera Southwest opened its season this weekend at the Kimo Theater with Verdi's Rigoletto, resulting in the company's most outstanding triumph to date. Here is a production to rival the Santa Fe Opera with soloists nothing short of superb all round. The costumes are a veritable Renaissance high fashion show matching sight with sound in a production not to be missed..."
"Peter Lindskoog, so impressive last season as Germont in La Traviata and fresh from a recent success at the LA Opera, sings the demanding title role, displaying a range both dramatic and tenderly lyrical. His sweet, well-focused baritone describes the wealth of emotional transfiguration from mischievousness to heart-wrenching despair."
by: D.S. Crafts
