"Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya displayed remarkable versatility in her leadership of the seventy-member orchestra, here placed behind the action onstage. The eerie opening passages of Everest suggested isolation itself, while the peasant dances in the Rachmaninoff caree...

"Two finer men could not have been cast for the leading roles of the lovers, Hawk and “Skippy.” Baritone Jesse Blumberg, as the super-confident Hawk Fuller. . . looked gorgeous and sang that way as well."

-Opera News

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“tenor Jonathan Riesen’s short, colorful appearance as Pirelli was both musically and dramatically satisfying.”  
  -Opera News

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"San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett assembled a solid vocal cast, including singers who have become welcome regulars in the company. Sara Gartland, who sang Musetta in the the 2015 La bohème, used her clear, bright soprano to portray a pert, sincere Gretel,...

"Conductor and COT music director Lidiya Yankovskaya led the soloists, choirs and the Chicago Sinfonietta in a crisp performance that served populist and classical idioms with equal aplomb." -Chicago Tribune

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"All the performers excelled musically and dramatically, led by soprano Eleni Calenos, who was radiant as Eisenstein’s wife Rosalinde...Calenos is well-known to New York’s Greek-American Community and her star is rising in the opera world. During the premier she lit up...

"It’s not hard to see how he won over Mary, played by the marvelous Adriana Zabala. (Zabala’s Act II aria, “I worry, that’s all,” is another distinct pleasure.) ...baritone Sidney Outlaw shine as a wisecracking secretary and a political puppeteer."
-Madison.com

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"Fortunata is wonderfully matched with an excellent vocal and dramatic companion in Annie Rosen as Adalgisa. Hers is a naturally warmer sound than Fortunata’s, but hardly less brilliant when needed, and she sang the arias and duets to perfection, not the least the Miro...

"Stage director Kristine McIntyre brought Poulenc’s one woman drama into the modern era with her own updated translation of the libretto. Performing the opera in English removed the need for surtitles, which let the audience focus on the drama. In addition to the telep...

"Thankfully, Whitney was a perfect match for Piao, not only as the quintessentially handsome lover, but also as an equal vocal and dramatic partner in the pair’s love duets. His romantic lyrical tenor was conspicuously smooth, but passionate, filled with warmth in his...