Click here for the June 23rd Article in the New York Times.

"There's nothing grand, thank goodness, about Opera Theatre...ensemble values mean more than stellar indulgences, and tired traditions are never treated as if they were sacrosanct. In context it all seems virtually un-American. Also refreshing."

Financial Times (London)

"A season full of delights, with theatrical and musical values at a very high level"

The Wall Street Journal

Celena Shafer as Blonda and Kevin Short as Osmin. Photo credit: Scott Humbert "Nowhere is opera-going a more pleasant total experience than at Opera Theatre. With the aura of civilized relaxation, it's no wonder patrons this year are coming from 40 states and several foreign countries. As the Sunday Times of London says, it's like Glyndebourne without the snobbery." Dallas Morning News

"This company at its best brings to its work a sense of discovery unmatched by any other lyric theater in America"

Courier-Journal (Louisville)

"Opera Theatre showcases the best and the brightest American talent.. The theater encourages audiences to join the prevailing spirit of musical and dramatic adventure. It's an eminently civilized place to make and experience opera.

Chicago Tribune

"GRAND WITHOUT GRANDEUR. In St. Louis, adventure, tradition and freshness lock hands. Forget any sense of routine... an operatic visit to St. Louis can only instill optimism about the art form. Treated with such vibrancy and intelligence, opera puts on no airs. It is entertainment of unparalleled richness"

The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"AN OPERA FESTIVAL LIKE NO OTHER. What makes the company so irresistible is its unwillingness to take anything - repertory, versions, or stagings - for granted...You walk into the theater unable to guess what you'll see... In a medium so often freighted with drab traditionalism, that's a high compliment." The Kansas City Star

"Sitting in a 900-seat theatre with an audience that is actually listening to the words and reacting to them as they are sung is becoming an increasingly rare pleasure in the operatic world...This is opera restored to its first, basic principles, as treasurable as it is refreshing.

The Times (London)

"Opera Theatre has made its reputation by being long on artistry and short on pretense."

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Opera Theatre is like an exotic flower that blossoms in the spring, provides a brief splash of color and then disappears for a year..The theater has an intimate quality missed in the cavernous halls where opera is performed elsewhere in the US, so the performances have an immediacy which makes opera here seem more a living theatrical tradition than a museum culture." The New York Times