Browse: Saint-Saëns - Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila)

The voice itself has plenty of potential…It’s all there in the last track, Eboli’s ‘O don fatale’…Rachvelishvili tears into this great aria and has a proper dramatic instinct for where to change... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

She describes herself as a lyric mezzo, but many roles here suggest considerable power, emphasised by the echoey recording...Her French isn't perfect, but it's very good, and she relishes the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

‘Poison d’amour’ is that rarity, a recital disc where interest is nicely balanced between the singer and the song…She opens with ‘O ma lyre immortelle’ from Gounod’s Sapho, where the awakening... — Opera, July 2021 More…

This enormously enjoyable debut solo recording from the Armenian mezzo comes courtesy of Decca’s ‘Mentored by Bartoli’ series, and Abrahamyan certainly shares the Roman diva’s effervescence and... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, April 2021 More…