Shanul Sharma Tenor

Sharma, is magnificent in the tenor role of Count Almaviva. He not only has an astounding voice but he also establishes a superb characterisation

Shanul Sharma as Almaviva is a handsome and stylish performer. The astonishing demands in his music are met fearlessly, top notes launched with ease, elaborate ornamentation delivered with a flourish.

Sharma was dashing and determined just as Almaviva should be.

I first heard Shanul Sharma, in Lyric Opera’s production of Werther and was amazed at how well his extraordinary, high tenor has grown in strength and substance. He retains the ease of production on the high notes with a secure high D in his first Rossini aria and a string of top Cs in his second. It is a rare voice that also possesses spectacular flexibility and an appealing timbre.

Shanul Sharma’s Florville also sought to engage the sympathy of the audience directly and brought an entertaining sense of the ridiculous to his melodramatic pleadings. Sharma’s distinctive tenor voice with its extraordinary upper extension and flexibility was very well suited to the demands of Rossini’s more florid passages. He made an appealingly sensitive lover whom you couldn’t help but cheer on no matter how outrageous his claims.

....Sharma shined with such a tender tenor voice. It was actually amazing to read in the program that he fronted heavy metal bands for years before he took to the classical singing technique.

Tenor Shanul Sharma again thrilled the crowd with the magnificent aria from Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment", which includes nine high Cs. His rendition of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma!" received a standing ovation.

....Shanul Sharma stole the night. Highlight of the night for me? Shanul Sharma's top to bottom gripping rendition of Donizetti's "Ah! Mes Amis".

It was hard to choose who was the crowd favourite, but undoubtedly the performances of Shanul Sharma ranked up near the top. His superb tenor voice leaving people in awe, while his duet with Ms Prior at the end of the first half was simply a joy.

Shanul Sharma presents Werther with a playful and impetuous urgency and a soulful robust masculinity in his attempts to win for Charlotte’s love. With just a smattering of opera credits since finding his way into opera from heavy metal less than two years ago, Sharma exhibits unselfconscious confidence, plentiful vocal steam and a powerful high range.

One-time heavy metal singer Shanul Sharma makes an auspicious debut in the title role, his rather exciting tenor voice reaching any and all high notes with relative ease.....Sharma’s kind eyes and gentle nature suited the role of ardent, lovelorn poet Werther. His performance of well-known aria “Pourquoi me réveiller?” is a highpoint of the opera.

Thanks to the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD production earlier this year, Jonas Kaufmann’s exemplary performance in the title role set a standard so high that any other attempts to personify Goethe’s tragic poet would seem to be as doomed as Werther himself. That this was not the case is a tribute to the musical and dramatic strength of Massenet and of Shanul Sharma, who, according to the director Suzanne Chaundy’s program note, “stepped in to take up the challenge of this incredibly demanding role at short notice”.
Sharma’s performance was convincing proof that difference can be an asset by illuminating different qualities in the role.....Sharma’s ambition to sing leading roles from bel canto repertoire seem to be a realistic goal....His portrayal of ardent poetic sensibility, drawn to the charms of nature, the innocence of children and Charlotte’s empathetic warmth, was well projected and engaged the sympathies of the audience.

Sharma (previously a successful heavy metal singer) blew the audience away with his opening number. The timbre of his voice reminded me of Pavarotti and he bought a good sense of comedy to his role.

Tenor Shanul Sharma again thrilled the crowd with the magnificent aria from Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment", which includes nine high Cs. His rendition of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma!" received a standing ovation.