PRESS
ORPHEUS IN DER UNTERWELT, THEATER MAGDEBURG 2022
"FROM THE OVERALL VOCALLY CONVINCING ENSEMBLE, THE YOUNG SCOT ROSHA FITZHOWLE, NEW IN MAGDEBURG SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS SEASON, SHOULD BE MENTIONED AS THE ATTRACTIVE EURYDICE. HER EXPRESSIVE SOPRANO, PURE IN INTONATION IN ALL REGISTERS, HAD NO PROBLEMS AT ALL WITH THE HEIGHTS AND THE NOT INFREQUENT COLORATURAS OF THE PART."
DER OPERNFEUND 13.11.22 GERHARD ECKELS
"If one were to replace the name Orpheus with Eurydice in the title of Jacques Offenbach's operetta classic in a very zeitgeisty way, one could hardly mock it. In the production at the opera in Magdeburg, she plays first fiddle in these 'Scenes of a Broken Marriage' in the guise of ensemble newcomer Rosha Fitzhowle. Vocal and acting. Director Igor Pison tells the story in an entertainingly contemporary way, also with irony, and mostly lets the hellishly Olympian music take precedence. Especially Eurydice and Pluto…take advantage of this and sweep the whole ensemble along with them."
NMZ 13.11.2022 JOACHIM LANGE
LA BOHÉME, MUSIC TO GO 2021
“BRODKA INVARIABLY PROVIDES TOP CASTING: THIS TIME ZINZI FROHWEIN SANG THE MIMI WITH DRAMATIC SOPRANO, EQUAL WAS THE COLORATURA SOPRANO ROSHA MAURA FITZHOWLE (MUSETTA)...”
RHEINISCHES POST 8.8.21 HANSGEORG MARZINKOWSKI
"ROSHA MAURA FITZHOWLE, ALSO A SOPRANO, IS FROM SCOTLAND AND DELIGHTED THE AUDIENCE WITH HER EXCEPTIONAL VOICE."
NEUE ZEITUNG 16.8.21 GELNHÄUSER
LO SPEZIALE, THEATER AACHEN 2021
"BUT BEFORE BOTH OBJECTS OF DESIRE APPEAR, GRILETTA, SEMPRONIO'S RICH, AND RATHER ATTRACTIVE WARD, A THIRD SUITOR COMES AROUND THE CORNER: VOLPINO, A BON VIVANT IN A TURKISH WIG AS A TROUSER ROLE, WONDERFULLY AND QUITE NATURALLY MACHO PLAYED AS WELL AS ALMOST WEIGHTLESSLY SUNG BY ROSHA FITZHOWLE."
AACHENER ZEITUNG 5.7.21 ARMIN KAUMANNS
"THE TONALLY BALANCED PLAYING TENOR OF HYUNHAN HWANG MAKES YOU WANT MORE, AS DO THE VELVETY TONES OF SOPRANO ROSHA FITZHOWLE IN THE TROUSER ROLE OF VOLPINO."
DER OPERNFREUND 5.7.21 JOCHEN RÜTH
ZAUBERER VON OZ, THEATER AACHEN 2019/20
"ROSHA FITZHOWLE, AGATA KORNAGA AND JULIE VERCAUTEREN ARE ADORABLE AS WINGED MONKEYS. THE FACT THAT THEY CLOSE THE CURTAIN AT THE END OF ACT 1 "DEEPLY AFFECTED" AND ASK FOR TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE CONTINUATION OF THE PLOT, AS A PARODY OF THE END OF BRECHT'S "CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE", SHOULD ONLY BE RECOGNISED BY THE OLDER ONES IN THE AUDIENCE."
NMZ 29.12.19 ANDREAS HAUFF
“EXEMPLARY HOMOGENEITY CHARACTERISES THE TRIO OF THE THREE FRIENDS WITH PATRICIO ARROYO AS THE SCARECROW, FABIO LESUISSE AS THE LION AND HYUNHAN HWANG AS THE TIN MAN. THE SAME GOES FOR THE LIVELY MONKEY TRIO OF ROSHA FITZHOWLE, AGATA KORNAGA AND JULIE VERKAUTEREN."
AACHENER ZEITUNG 10.12.19 PEDRO OBIERA
"IN HIS LATEST SCORE, SCHREIER IMITATES DIVERSE MUSICAL STYLES: THERE ARE THREE WINGED MONKEYS WHO LEAD US THROUGH THE STORY WITH MONTIVERDI MADRIGALS. ROSHA FITZHOWLE, AGATA KORNAGA AND JULIE VERKAUTEREN PRESENT THESE PIECES AS VERY BALANCED ENSEMBLE SINGING."
DER OPERNFREUND 11.12.19 RUDOLF HERMES
"THREE WINGED MONKEYS LEAD THE WAY THROUGH THE STORY, A BON MOT HERE AND THERE ON THEIR LIPS, WACKY AND SOMEHOW LOOPY: ROSHA FITZHOWLE, AGATA KORNAGA AND JULIE VERKAUTEREN PLAY AND SING THEM WITH MUCH FERVOUR, WIT AND CHARM, AND AS IF THAT WASN'T CHALLENGE ENOUGH, THE THREE SINGERS ALSO SHINE AS MUNCHKIN LADIES AND DELICATE PORCELAIN CUPS."
MOVIE 11.12.19 ENIKO KÜMMEL
WERTHER, THEATER AACHEN 2019
“BUT ROSHA FITZHOWLE IN THE ROLE OF SOPHIE ALSO DESERVES AN HONOURABLE MENTION.”
DER OPERNFREUND 3.12.19 INGO HAMACHER
“THE MIRROR HALL SEEMS TOO SMALL FOR ROSHA MAURA FITZHOWLE'S SOPRANO, SO OVERWHELMINGLY POWERFUL DOES THE FEELING POUR FROM THE CHEST OF THE DELICATE WOMAN IN THE SINFUL RED EVENING DRESS. ONE CAN BE GLAD THAT SHE DIDN'T BREAK THE GLASS OF THE MIRRORS.”
MAZ-ONLINE 13.7.19
"IN THIS, THE SCOTTISH SOPRANO ROSHA MAURA FITZHOWLE AS WELL AS GABRIELLA GUILFOIL (MEZZO-SOPRANO), WHO WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES, AND CHRISTIAN NOEL BAUER (BASS-BARITONE) AND JOHANNES SCHWARZ (BARITONE) GAVE AN IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE."
MOZ 14.7.19 JÜRGEN RAMMELT
RHEINSBERG CONCERT, KAMMEROPER SCHLOSS 2019
"BEWITCHING WAS THE VOICE OF ROSHA MAURA FITZHOWLE, WHO HAD NO TROUBLE MASTERING EVEN THE HIGHEST COLORATURAS."
MOZ 14.7.19 JÜRGEN RAMMELT
"LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE PROGRAMME REVEALED THAT THE SINGERS INVOLVED HAD SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR STUDIES AND HAD ALREADY GAINED THEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS OPERA PRODUCTIONS AND CONCERTS.
MOZ 14.7.19 JÜRGEN RAMMELT
DIDO AND AENEAS, THEATER AACHEN 2019
“NOTEWORTHY LISTENING PLEASURE GIVES ALSO THE BEAUTIFUL SOPRANO ROSHA FITZHOWLE IN THE ROLE OF BELINDA.”
AACHENER ZEITUNG 14.6.19 ARMIN KAUMANNS
“As Belinda, Dido’s confidante, Rosha Fitzhowle gives us a downright cheeky portrayal. The voice of the young soprano is unpretentiously well placed.”
AACHENER ZEITUNG 14.6.19 ARMIN KAUMANNS
MELODIES OF SCOTLAND, FRINGE SHOW 2016
“Soprano Rosha Fitzhowle is as Scottish as they come and sung fifteen songs with great passion and considerable talent.”
EDINBURGH GUIDE 11.8.16 BARNABY MILN
“It might be said that when traditional folk music is taken up by well known composers the outcome is art music. In the same way with Scottish folk songs that have become arts song when taken up by composers well known to us.Rosha Fitzhowle and David Goodenough brought together the poetry of Robert Burns (1759-1796), William Souter (1898-1946), Fiona MacLeod aka William Sharp (1855-1905) and Sir Walter Scott's Scottish Minstrelsy of 1802. To these, composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Benjamin Britten, Sir James Macmillan, Judith Weir and Sir Arnold Bax have made arrangements.Soprano Rosha Fitzhowle is as Scottish as they come and sung fifteen songs with great passion and considerable talent. Perhaps the most dramatic and thought provoking was James Macmillan's setting of William Soutar's 'Upon the streets they lie'. We heard Logan Water, a Robert Burns protest against war and A Celtic Lullaby arranged by Sir Arnold Bax taken from Fiona McLeod's From the Hills of Dream. I enjoyed The Partin' Glass, considered Scotland's most popular song two hundred years ago. To finish came Ae Fond Kiss and Then We Server, written by Burns as his lover set sail for Jamaica. Credit must be given for the excellent programme notes, not just with good descriptions of each song but references to back them up too. And for those not so familiar with couthy Scots language, a glossary of the trickier words. David Goodenough accompanied Rosha on St Vincent's new Petrof Weinbach grand piano. They go back to the time Rosha was a pupil at Fettes College, where David is Director of Music.”
EDINBURGH GUIDE 11.8.16 BARNABY MILN
L’ANTIGONIE, CONSENSUS DANCE COMPANY AND METAPRAXIS ENSEMBLE 2015
“Since then, L’antigonie has changed and evolved massively, mainly due to the efforts of the amazingly hard working dance group Aline put together (Sarah Adjou, Alessio Cappelli, Ughetta Pratesi and Paolo Rosini), and -at a later stage- of the Metapraxis Ensemble (formed by the exceptional musicians George Barton, Rosha Fitzhowle, Ilze Ikse, Matt London, and Andrew Power).”
NONSEGMENTAL BLOG 26.10.15 NONSEGMENTAL
“The four sorcerers and sorceresses sing the choral movements with verve, including soprano Rosha Fitzhowle whose top register sparkles”
FRINGE OPERA 2014 FRANCESCA WICKERS
DIDO AND AENEUS, URSULAS ARROW 2014