Abigail Kelly gives a superlative performance as Queen Nanny, finely sung and acted, making a memorable silhouette with her traditional turban and huge bloodstained cutlass . . . "

Taken from https://bachtrack.com/review-tete-a-tete-people-watch-sacred-mountain-life-stories-july-2015

On an empty stage, soprano Abigail Kelly gives a poignant and touching performance with a vocal range that reflects her expertise with chamber operas."

Taken from: http://www.ldncard.com/blog/tete-a-tete-festival-2015/0286

The subject of first night's second show is the Jamaican heroine Queen Nanny, the spiritual and military leader who led the Maroons into battle with the British in the 1720s. Sung and danced with grace by Abigail Kelly . . . .

 

"A further small group of live musicians would have made all the difference, but Kelly's natural musical abilities emerged unscathed."

Taken from: https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2015/tete-tete-opera-festival-2015/

The Caribbean Associations Group (Reading) present a Black History Month Recital featuring Abigail Kelly performing arias from operas, songs from musicals, traditional African-American spirituals and Caribbean folk songs on Saturday 10th October 2015.

The Thieving Magpie, Midland Opera at the Crescent Theatre - Birmingham Post , July 2015

As Ninetta, the falsely-accused servant-girl, Abigail Kelly was simply brilliant. Still young, she can boast an upper register into estremis which is mature, bright and clear, and she projects both musically and dramatically with cultured poise. Yes, she has a vibrato to her tone, but it's never intrusive.

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Abigail Kelly takes the spotlight as Jamaica's Queen Nanny of the Maroons in the world premier of Shirley Thompson's one woman opera The Sacred Mountain at Tete a Tete, The Opera Festival.

Abigail returns to Birmingham this summer in the lead role of Ninetta for Midland Opera at the Crescent Theatre in Rossini's The Thieving Magpie.

'Sacred Mountain' is an opera written and composed by British-Jamaican composer, arranger and conductor, Dr Shirley Thompson about Nanny of the Maroons in Jamaica. It will have its world premiere at this year's staging of Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival, the largest contemporary opera festival in Europe held this year in Kings Cross in the United Kingdom. The festival runs from July 21 to August 9 and Thompson's opera will be performed on July 21 and 22.

'Sacred Mountain 'features solo vocals with full orchestra and Thompson is working with Abigail Kelly, a Briton of Jamaican parents, in the signature role.

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Swan Song is an entertaining cabaret performed by soprano Abigail Kelly with pianist Nicholas Bosworth.

A review of 'The Marriage of Figaro' in London featuring Abigail Kelly - Opera Magazine, Jan 2015.