"There is star acting from mezzo Amanda Crider as Poppea. She is not just fetching in her seductive manner and sly power to corrupt, but...

"Alto Amanda Crider gave a virtuoso performance of Jubilate o amoeni chori, singing long chains of dozens of notes on a single word, and...

"Amanda Crider’s burnished mezzo-soprano gave authority to Speranza — Orfeo’s supernatural guide." -ClevelandClassical.com Read full review.

"The highlight of the piece came during the thirteenth movement, "when it's time for me to go," with mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider's...

"as Alma, mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider sang for almost the entire 90-minute duration of the work. Crider colored her tones, projected...

"Amanda Crider displayed good control of the modal melodies with neat embellishments and even vibrato." -South Florida Classical Review...

"Mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider, in her BLO debut, spiked her voice with a steely edge as the Waitress who becomes Eddy’s wife. However, the...

"The production was staged by director John Hoomes, who is never short on ideas. The Schirmer English translation was employed, and...

“When you’re having a really good time in the theater, you hate to see the curtain fall, and so it was at Friday evening’s Florentine...

“And at the heart of this production was Amanda Crider’s nuanced performance as Alma. She conveyed with often-gleaming vocalism the slow...