Dido (Dido and Aeneas)
Galatea (Acis and Galatea)
Meleagro (Atalanta)
Cherubino, Susanna and Countess (The Marriage of Figaro)
Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore)
Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Elisa (Il Re Pastore)
Cendrillon (title role)
Micaela (Carmen)
Marchese (Un Giorno di Regno)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Violetta (La Traviata)
Elvira (Ernani)
Leonora (Il Trovatore)
Mimi (La Boheme – both Puccini and Leoncavallo versions)
Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly)
Nedda (I Pagliacci)
Ludmilla (Russlan and Ludmilla)
Stabat Mater (Rossini)
Petite Messe Solenelle (Rossini)
Requiem and Mass in D (Dvorak)
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Requiem (Verdi)
Requiem (Schumann)
Four Last Songs (Strauss)
Shéhérazade (Ravel)
Sandra as Violetta in La Traviata at the Komische Oper, Berlin
“Sandra Ford’s rounded portrayals of Hoffmann’s different loves was memorable, for all the right reasons. Her Olympia was … cleanly articulated, accurate and unforced, the coloratura executed with the precision of the automaton she so charmingly suggested. As Antonia, her singing of ‘Elle a fui’ was touchingly expressive. Reincarnated in the Venetian act as the seductive Giulietta … Sandra Ford produced her most alluring singing. The version on this occasion called for more brilliant coloratura in Giulietta’s aria, which Ford relished. She and Julian Gavin (Hoffmann) also gave a thrilling, impassioned account of their duet.”
Opera Magazine
‘In wig, dress and demeanour Sandra Ford looked very much the Velasquezian princess and sang with lovely tone and exemplary phrasing’
Opera Magazine
‘Elvira was ravishingly sung with an assured and glowing dignity by Sandra Ford’
The Times
‘But it is not often that the Mimi is at once so fresh and full of voice, yet convincingly fragile. Sandra Ford’s account of the role is the most ‘complete’ here: she colours her soprano generously and rides the orchestra with ease, and is always affecting in her portrayal of the heroine’s plight’
The Times
‘Sandra Ford’s portrayal of Violetta is remarkably fine. She looks beautiful, fragile and vulnerable; her voice, though, is opulent, cleaving the air with considerable force’
The Guardian
All photographs are copyright and may not be reproduced without permission. Teaching photo: Ruth Wadey. Mimi: Billy Rafferty. Elvira and Violetta: Linda Gregory. Monochrome Violetta: Billy Rafferty
David Jones – New York
Jeffrey Talbot – London
Dr Ron Morris – London
