La Cenerentola, Opera Roanoke (photo: Jeff Hofmann Photography)
"TCO's stage director, JJ Hudson, made these potential black holes interesting and amusing by staging that showed the layers of characterization available to principal, choral, and supernumerary performers. Everything was thought out; every empty spot was covered without becoming frantic.. [...] I know I have been tending toward superlatives in this review. Let's just say that I have seldom had such fun watching an opera."
-- Sherri Strichman (Broome County Arts Council) review of Tri-Cities Opera's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2015)
"Directed by JJ Hudson with imagination and sensitivity to the fact that the principals have devilishly difficult music to sing, Opera Roanoke's production of La Cenerentola fostered an environment in which the singers could engender sympathetic characterizations without being distracted from singing by an overabundance of manic goings-on."
-- Joseph Newsome (Voix des Arts) review of Opera Roanoke's La Cenerentola (2015)
-- Sherri Strichman (Broome County Arts Council) review of Tri-Cities Opera's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2015)
"Directed by JJ Hudson with imagination and sensitivity to the fact that the principals have devilishly difficult music to sing, Opera Roanoke's production of La Cenerentola fostered an environment in which the singers could engender sympathetic characterizations without being distracted from singing by an overabundance of manic goings-on."
-- Joseph Newsome (Voix des Arts) review of Opera Roanoke's La Cenerentola (2015)
