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Opera News commends Livengood's Baba in "The Medium" with the Phoenicia Festival

"From her Mama Rose-style entrance up the aisle, Victoria Livengood imbued Mme. Flora with her wonted theatrical energy. Her barrelhouse...

Opera Lively hails Livengood as being "simply excellent" in North Carolina Opera's &qu

"I was very pleasantly surprised with two other singers who were just as extraordinary in their roles. Victoria Livengood almost stole...

In Review: Moran, Mayes, and Angus in Boston Lyric Opera's "Carmen"

"The cartoonishly masculine, granite-jawed Michael Mayes brought a shyster’s swagger and a robust sound as Escamillo. He and Johnson Cano...

Joseph Colaneri praised by Opera News for "La bohème" at Glimmerglass Festival

"But the treatment of the central love affair was unfussy and sensitive: in the scenes between Mimì and Rodolfo, the work’s unbounded...

Opera News reviews recording of Floyd's "Wuthering Heights" featuring Susanne Mentzer

"Mezzo Susanne Mentzer is unexpectedly empathic as the maid and confidante Nelly. . . Conductor Joseph Mechavich leads the performance...

Opera News hails Susanne Mentzer and Michael Mayes in Central City Opera's summer season!

"With her Maggie Smith-like facial expressions, mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer could hardly have been better as Augusta, conveying the...

Opera News hails Biller's "honeyed tone" in Beth Morrison Projects' "Madama W

"Soprano Susannah Biller rode the sumptuous strings with honeyed tone and melting poignancy, displaying flashes of the temptress while...

In Review: Susanne Mentzer as Marcellina in Milwaukee Symphony's "Le nozze di Figaro"

"Mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer’s delightful Marcellina, bass Peixin Chen’s affable Bartolo, tenor William Ferguson’s character-filled Don...

Biller brings her "purity of tone" to Beth Morisson Project's "Madame White Snake

"Susannah Biller in “Madame White Snake” came out with her character reincarnated as human, and her harvest-moon voice was the warmest...

In Review: Emily Birsan sings Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Melbourne Symphony

"The ensemble of the four – soprano Emily Birsan, mezzo Michèle Losier, tenor Andrew Staples, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn – was...