Antigona, Theater Osnabrück, 2018
Guest singer Christian Damsgaard has a compelling presence on stage.
- Osnabrücker Nachrichten
For the part of Creonte, originally written for the virtuoso Antonio Prati, we find in Christian Damsgaard a more than adequate interpreter. He manages both to beautifully shape the contrasting musical lines where coloratura alternates with stately declamation of obvious French origin, and to join them into a portrait of a complex and multifaceted character.
- Operaclick
King Creonte, vocally as well as theatrically very convincingly performed by Danish tenor Christian Damsgaard, refuses Antigona’s plea.
- TAZ die Tageszeitung
Lonely House, Hofteatret in København, 2017
The three lonely singers in this delicious small-scale performance are overwhelmingly good. (...) The tenor Christian Damsgaard is a happy fool who makes awkward advances at the bar, before also he lets himself be carried away by longing and the desire to feel wanted and loved. Especially in the title song, Lonely House by Kurt Weill, his voice hits a particular vulnerability.
- Danish newspaper Information
Hamlet in Absentia, Den Fynske Opera in Odense, 2017
Christian Damsgaard is extremely comical and sings well in the part of Gildenstern.
- Fyens Stiftstidende, March 2017
Madama Butterfly, Danish National Opera, 2016
As the matchmaker Goro, Christian Damsgaard seems sneakily and disdainfully to be looking for trouble, showing not the least sign of regret over having attached Butterfly to a dis-honourable soldier; and vocally he was a good match for the role.
- Danish newspaper Information
Christian Damsgaard sings a fine Goro, suitably restrained in both portrayal and vocalism. He rightly does not stoop to parody, since he is meant to be the Japanese culture’s foil to the Yankee Pinkerton.
- Blog jcklassisk
The marriage broker Goro, in Christian Damsgaard’s provokingly servile and unctuous portrayal, represents the idea of a stereotypical Japanese double-dealer: feign subservience and laugh all the way to the bank…
- Danish newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende
