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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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