La Serva Padrona
"...the main attraction of the evening was the buffo opera...done in a semistaged manner that was witty and deft." (R.M. Campbell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Dracula
"Sexier still was 'Dracula,' a gloriously giddy monodrama based on Alfred Corn's ''My Neighbor, the Distinguished Count,' in which a victim of the titular vampire grows insatiable for power of her own. The soprano Melissa Fogarty narrated and sang with consummate focus while acting with delirious abandon, draping herself over the furniture and playfully threatening to sink fangs into unsuspecting members of the ensemble Mr. Del Tredici conducted." (Steve Smith, The New York Times)

The Triumph of Camilla
“Edifying as well as artistically rewarding…style, intelligence and imagination were strong suits played to the hilt.” (Peter Catalano, American Record Guide)

Alcina
“(With) a solid semi-staging by Jennifer Griesbach, the transformation was pure magic.” (T.J. Medrek, Boston Herald)

Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
“A fine sense of storytelling within arias…the stage picture was constantly renewed, and the pacing never lagged.” (Michael Zweibach, San Francisco Classical Voice)

Aminta e Fillide
“Fleet and appealing.” (Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Jennifer Griesbach’s work in baroque staging…drew us into the delicious humor of this work. The gratified chuckles and thunderous applause at the end of the work proved that fully staged baroque opera is anything but a dead art form.” (John Prescott, San Francisco Classical Voice)

“The singers’ elegant, stylized poses and calculated hand gestures were both entertainingly humorous and beautiful to watch…[this] enterprise represents one of the best sustained local efforts in championing the difficult and rarefied genre of baroque opera and theatrical arts. Irrespective of size or budget, few organizations in the country have been consistently able to deliver performances with this level of conceptual integrity and artistic invention.” (Ching Chang, San Francisco Classical Voice)

L’Aldimiro
“The performance went well beyond specialist fare. A thoroughly modern audience ate the piece whole and clearly found it satisfying.” ( Timothy Pfaff, Contra Costa Times)

“High marks also to director Jennifer Griesbach, who persuaded many in the cast to adopt wonderfully artificial 17th-century attitudes and poses…[which] looked like Italian baroque engravings come to life.” (David Littlejohn, Wall Street Journal)