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"...A mezzo of astonishing range and flexibility..."
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"Mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux’s voice is a study in color. As her tone shifted from a mother’s quiet encouragement to a simmering internal rage, Michaux’s expressive quality and variety is remarkable..."
Arts Impulse
"... the warm, colorful mezzo Sophie Michaux..."
Opera News
"Michaux’s voice is a luscious shade of burgundy, velvety and ever so slightly smoky..."
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"The singing was especially luminous. Mezzo soprano Sophie Michaux’s velvety soprano captured the full emotional range of the opera’s title character. Her singing gave the character angelic presence in the first Act. ...With anguished tones, she captured Lucretia’s madness and shame in the gut-wrenching aftermath... She crawled about the stage whimpering and quivering, her singing never losing focus and power. "
Boston Classical Review
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"Mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux’s voice is a study in color. As her tone shifted from a mother’s quiet encouragement to a simmering internal rage, Michaux’s expressive quality and variety is remarkable..."
Arts Impulse
"... the warm, colorful mezzo Sophie Michaux..."
Opera News
"Michaux’s voice is a luscious shade of burgundy, velvety and ever so slightly smoky..."
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"The singing was especially luminous. Mezzo soprano Sophie Michaux’s velvety soprano captured the full emotional range of the opera’s title character. Her singing gave the character angelic presence in the first Act. ...With anguished tones, she captured Lucretia’s madness and shame in the gut-wrenching aftermath... She crawled about the stage whimpering and quivering, her singing never losing focus and power. "
Boston Classical Review
Latest News:
Sophie sang in the Wold-Premiere of "Her Story", by Julia Wolfe, with the Lorelei Ensemble and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and will sing the work again with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (January 2023), Boston Symphony (March 2023) and the San Francisco Symphony (May 2023). New York Times review here
