Jason McStoots, Tenor
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"But it is Jason McStoots' warm unforced tenor that stands out as the adult Michelangelo. McStoots is a natural, a believable actor and a first-rate singer."
--Channing Grey, Providence Journal for his creation of the title role in Enrico Garzilli's Michelangelo
"And Intermezzo has recruited a solid cast of local talent. Particularly notable was tenor Jason McStoots as Inman's sometime handyman Billy - his second-act duet with Bauwens, the two reading Billy's farewell letter to Inman, was the musical high point. But it's indicative that the letter's gratitude is surprising, given what little we've seen of their relationship."
-- Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe for his creation of the role of Billy in Thomas Oboe Lee's The Inman Diaries
"The cast was stellar: McStoots's Nanki-Poo light and bluff, but neither lightweight nor bland, and with exemplary enunciation..."--Jeffery Gantz, The Boston Phoenix for his performance of The Mikado with The Bostonians
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For Various roles in BEMF's production of Lully's Psyche
"For the most part, the large cast and chorus sang with razor-sharp clarity and stellar musicianship...Act II was highlighted by the appearnace of Colin Balzer and Jason McStoots, respectively as Vulcain,...and Zephire, god of the winds. When these two tenors sang together, it was a stunning union of four elements, McStoots's water and air meeting Balzer's earth and fire."
--Wayman Chin, Opera News
"The singers were also consistently outstanding in their musical parts, their acting, and their ensemble work. Except for the two principle parts of Vénus and Psyché, the singers sang multiple roles among the host of characters. Among them were ... tenor Jason McStoots (United States)... "
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http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/show_article.php?
article_id=329&category=Music
"All this is revealed in ravishing songs, instrumental passages, and dances. Lully's harmonies could break your heart, as when, in the Prologue, Vertumne, god of trees and fruits (tenor Jason McStoots) and Palemon, god of waters (baritone Matthew Shaw) join their voices to vaunt tender-heartedness over beauty."
"Another refreshingly witty touch involves the male singers who play the Furies (McStoots, tenor Zachary Wilder, and tall bass-baritone Olivier Laquerre.) Dressed in black hoopskirted gowns, they scuttle around, bump into one another, and have little hissy fits, while remembering to repeat like a broken record their dismal refrain, "There is no mercy in Hell."
--Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
"Arch characters were aplenty, usually arriving in tight vocal ensembles. Psyche's snippy sisters stood out in act one, while in act four a trio of Furies -- drag queens in black hoop skirts -- were worthy guardians to the gates of hell."
--Joseph Dalton, Times Union, Albany, NY
"BEMF also fielded a solid cast of singers, many of them quite young. ...Standouts included Teresa Wakim, Amanda Forsythe and Yulia Van Doren. Zachary Wilder, Jason McStoots and Olivier Laquerre were ferociously funny as Furies wearing 17th-century drag in the Underworld."
--Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118229802787441293.html
"...a fine group of mostly younger singers covered many of the smaller roles, including ...Jason McStoots..."
--Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe,
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles
/2007/06/14/strolling_in_a_garden_of_the_ancient_gods/?p1=MEWell_Pos5
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"The well-chosen cast is excellent. No "white" tones here, but fine voices imbuing Monteverdi's music and librettist Busenello's words with the gamut of expression and Baroque style."
"Every singer deserves mention, especially Jason McStoots as the nurse Arnalta, a born comic in one of two drag roles."
" The singing was splendid throughout the cast."
-- Philippa Kiraly of the Seatle Post-Intelligencer for his performance of Arnalta and Lucano in Monteverdi's L'incoronatzione di Poppea
"Tenor, Jason McStoots in particularly lovely and ingratiating voice..."
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By John Zeugner Worcester Telegram & Gazette for his performance of Dvorak's Mass in D with the Worcester Community Chorus
"Tenor Jason McStoots, with his finely articulated diction and light-textured, ringing voice was vocally the ideal Nanki-Poo."
--Anna Crebo of the Cape Cod Times for his performance in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
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What's next for
Jason McStoots?
Autumn 2007
Sept 30
Blue Heron
Renaissance Choir
Presents music of
Taverner and Byrd
Oct 4
McStoots appears
with mezzo, Krista River
in a recital of Britten
songs at the
Harvard Buisness
School
Oct 13
The Boston Cammerata
on Tour in Knoxville, TN
Singing School
Oct 19, 20, 21 & 27
Exsultemus Period
Vocal Ensemble presents
a program of
Air de Cour
music of the
French Renaissance
Nov 2
McStoots appears
in Recital with
pianist, Sheila Kibbe
in a festival of the
songs of
Edvard Greig
Nov 18
Soloist with Emmanuel
Music in the Cantata
Series,
Bach Cantata BWV 73
Nov 24
As Nanki-Poo in G&S's
Mikado with Richard
Conrad's The Bostonians
at Jordan Hall
