“Malinche’s son Martín, sung with vigor, excellent diction, and an exacting intonation by baritone Andrew Garland, created a Janus-faced moment in that he is identified as the first mestizo, indicating a new era has come into being.” – Joseph E. Morgan – Music City Review – Dec. 1, 2022

“Andrew Garland, Javier Abreu and Jeremy Reger lend their inimitable and powerful skills to compositions by Gabriela Frank and Dmitri Shostakovich here, who transformed Spanish language song via their ingenuity to song craft.

“Cantos de Cifaryel MarDulce (Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea)” opens the listen with Garland’s soaring baritone that’s illuminated by Reger’s alluring piano across the diverse 8 chapters, and “Las Cinco Lunas de Lorca” follows with a duet that allows Abreu’s tenor to add another dimension to the emotive and powerful landscape.

“but the quality of the compositions and precise singing and piano prowess make for a captivating listening experience.”

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Watch highlights from Andrew Garland’s performance as Papageno with Boston Baroque.

Andrew Garland’s warm and beautiful tone combined with virtuosic agility made this one of the expressive highlights of the evening. – Boston Music Intelligencer

“The most distinctive scenes are those involving Andrew Garland and Kirsten Chambers. As the suffering Prior Walter, Garland deployed a versatile, muscular baritone. Garland was at his best in Act II, when he turned into a convincing, if unwilling, prophet — and showed an impressive falsetto.” — Opera News, September 2017

“Andrew Garland as Prior [Walter] sang with vocal allure and dramatic urgency.” — Alex Ross, The New Yorker 

“Exceptional dramatic focus…Andrew Garland handled the mixture of singing and speech particularly well.” — WQXR Operavore

“As Prior Walter, a gay man dying of AIDS, Andrew Garland gave us a heartbreaking, lyrical performance bereft of self pity.” — ZealNYC.com