Performance Reviews

"But as so often happens, the Gotterdammerung was the best with the Brunhilde-Waltraute encounter towards the end of Act I...the absolute highlight!" ... "With nothing on stage at all Karen Bureau and Carla Rae Cook made this scene something unforgettable."
                      -- Hans Neugarten, Amsterdam Review

"Carla Cook, tall and handsome as befitted the masculine role of Octavian, was certainly well-cast for the role. She has a lovely, mezzo voice of great balance and exquisite control, and she is quite an actress when she is called upon."
                              -- News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA

"Among minor roles, two stood well above the others: Cindy Sadler's haughty Erda and Carla Rae Cook's electrifying Waltraute."
                              -- Opera News, Kenneth La Fave

"The piece's only action involves the efforts of Bluebeard's latest wife, Judith, to pern each of the seven locked doors she finds on arriving at his castle on their wedding night." ... "As Judith, soprano Carla Rae Cook sang with impressive urgency and flair."
                -- San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman