"Worra was riveting...proving herself one of the finest singing actresses around." Karen Ratzlaff - Opera News (Lizzie Borden)
Photo by Marty Umans at "Humans by Umans" in NYC ________________________________________________________
"Opening night was headlined by soprano Caroline Worra, who, true to the title, nary let a frown wrinkle her brow... Both Worra and Troxell have been on stage countless times and it showed. Neither, in a production where there are lots of kicking up of heels, put a foot wrong. Their polish, as well as the prevelence of American accents, gave the performance a Broadway vibe." Peter Gordon - Asian Review of Books (The Merry Widow)
The Merry Widow - Musica Viva in Hong Kong
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"...the superb soprano Caroline Worra was a commanding Aunt Lydia - scary in her smiling fanaticism, while fearless and accurate in some taxingly high writing." David Shengold - Opera (The Handmaid's Tale)
The Handmaid's Tale - Photo by Liza Voll at Boston Lyric Opera
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"Caroline’s an immaculate musician and vocally complete, but that’s only where a singer starts. Her sound is utterly her own—rich, bright, crackling with electricity—and every time I hear her she’s a bolder, more inventive actress...her intensity was such, you could hardly draw breath...as Leonard Bernstein once said of Maria Callas, if I could sing like that I’d never write another note again." Mark Adamo - Time Out New York (Three Lost Chords)
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"I have just returned from DC where I saw one of the greatest opera performances in my long, long years. Caroline Worra as Charlotte in "Before Breakfast". She was amazing in every way, vocally, musically and dramatically. She held the audience in the palm of her hand and no one breathed for the forty minutes of her monologue. It does not get any better than this." written by the composer Thomas Pasatieri (Before Breakfast)
Before Breakfast - Urban Arias photo by Clinton Brandhagen
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"Worra brings emotional directness and singing of white hot charisma. ...she exerts a prodigious histrionic presence even in the context of an audio recording." Joseph Newsome - Voix des Arts - CD Review (Amleto)
"Caroline Worra as Queen Geltrude is truly one of the most fantastic sopranos I've heard live. She has a rock-solid voice from the top to the bottom and colors to spare!! And she looked every inch the evil guilty queen with her brazen, red, off-the-shoulder gown. Her Act III aria brought the house down." Wade Davis - Operagasm (Amleto)
Amleto - Photo by Lanz Ozier - Opera Southwest
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"Caroline is one of the greatest opera singers living today...Her voice is an incredibly beautiful instrument...It has a wide variety of color and she is able to infuse her voice with the emotional meaning of whatever she is singing at the time, which enables there to be an extraordinary palette of sound." Lawrence Edelsen - Connecticut Post (Falstaff)
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"Worra sang all of her music wonderfully, with clean attack and informed stylistic mastery: clearly this is a serious artist destined for international stages." David Shengold - Opera News (Don Giovanni)
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Of course, no production of this opera can work without a compelling Agrippina, and soprano Caroline Worra was all that and more. Put simply, she had it all - a beautiful voice, dynamic stage presence, tremendous technique and a keen dramatic instinct. Worra's performance was so richly charismatic that her presence was felt even when she was absent from the stage - which is exactly the way Agrippina would have wanted it." Karen Ratzlaff - Opera News (Agrippina)
Agrippina - Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera
Agrippina - Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera
Aggrippina - Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera ________________________________________________________
"...the singer who stood out was Caroline Worra...She is simply the most instantly communicative and immediate artist I have seen on the stage since Beverly Sills...the audience was electrified...the vocal quality is luminous, there is a throb in the vibrato that gives a real sense of vulnerability and femininity, and she has precisely the same magical quality that Sills had - the ability to seem, on stage, completely self-confident and self- possessed, and yet with a warmth in her voice and manner, a sense of being 'personal' and 'caring', that spoke directly to the audience...and that wonderful smile...there were moments when she was singing when I was close to tearful, hearing such an intimate and personal sense of presence in a young singer...She is, I believe, on the verge of a stellar career...We have heard a number of very fine young sopranos in recent years,...but Worra is I think unique among them in the sheer human communication and expressivity she is bringing to the stage right now." Beckmesserschmitt - OPERA-L (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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"Caroline Worra is a compelling performer with quite extraordinary technical abilities." David Shengold - Opera News (Ariodante)
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"Caroline Worra might be a new soprano powerhouse." Alex Ross - The New Yorker (Arianna in Creta)
"...singing and acting with an arresting emotional rawness." Marion Ligana Rosenberg - Opera News (Arianna in Creta)
Arianna in Creta - Photo by Stephanie Berger at Gotham Chamber Opera
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"The revelation in the cast was Caroline Worra ... who provides the evening's terrifying climax ... with a superb soprano and solid technique ... she delivered the final twist with fearsome power, landing on a molten high B that produced an almost physical reaction from the audience." Brian Kellow - Opera News (The Mines of Sulphur)
The Mines of Sulphur - Photo by New York City Opera ________________________________________________________
"...musically pin-point accurate." John W. Freedman - Opera News (The Greater Good)
"A singer without Worra's warm naturalistic delivery couldn't pull this off." Joshua Rosenblum - Opera News CD Review (The Greater Good)
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"Soprano Caroline Worra, stalking the stage with a wild whirlwind of fury, was a vivid presence as the crazed Elettra... She navigated the chromatic passagework of her rage arias with ease, exhibiting sureness of pitch and control..." Karen Ratzlaff - Opera News (Idomeneo)
Idomeneo - Photo by Charles Erickson at Boston Lyric Opera
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"Worra is always a committed performer musically and dramatically." David Shengold - Opera News (Peter Grimes)
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"...Worra deploys acting and musical chops in equally impressive measure..." Joshua Rosenblum - Opera News CD Review (Glory Denied)
Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera photo by Ellen Appel
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"Caroline Worra was as delightfully evil as a Disney villainess...and proved that this difficult role can be sung with beauty." David Shengold - Opera (Lizzie Borden)
Lizzie Borden - Boston Lyric Opera photo by Eric Antoniou
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"Caroline Worra brought star presence and her shining tone and dead-on attacks..." David Shengold - Opera News (The Long Walk)
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"...I'd hightail it to any performance that Worra got to do if I were you. Her singing in English - which I think is really a golden language for her - is always clear and she has a special way in making the words bear emotional content without overemphasizing them. The breath support is really impressive and she is just great to watch and 'communicate with' on stage - again, she reminds me of all of the wonderful parts of Sills...she is such a luminous presence on stage, and such an incandescent artist, that you really should do everything you possibly can to experience this type of artistic communication, which is increasingly rare today, I am afraid." Beckmesserschmitt - OPERA-L (Knoxville; Summer of 1915)
Caroline Worra (in red) at Carnegie Hall
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One of the top ten BEST opera recordings of the Year - Opera News - Amleto - Opera Southwest
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Nomination for BEST REDISCOVERED WORK - International Opera Awards - Opera Magazine - Amleto - Opera Southwest
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The BEST of the Year - Opera News Top CDs - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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The BEST of the Year - Washington Post CD list - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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The COLUMN AWARDS "BEST PICK" for DRAMATIC SOPRANO - Best in the DFW Theatre - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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The REGIONS BEST ON STAGE in Dallas-Fort Worth - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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The 8 BEST MOMENTS in CLASSICAL MUSIC and OPERA in Dallas/Fort Worth - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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THE 10 BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC and OPERA PERFORMANCES in Dallas/Fort Worth - Glory Denied - Fort Worth Opera
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THE TOP 10 PERFORMANCES by The Boston Classical Review - Cosi fan tutte - Boston Lyric Opera
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NOMINATION for BEST ACTRESS in an OPERA at DCTheatre Scene - Before Breakfast - Urban Arias
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WINNER of BEST OPERA of IRELAND - The Mines of Sulphur - Wexford Festival Opera
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TOP CLASSICAL CDs list by THE NEW YORK TIMES - The Greater Good; Passion of Boule de Suif - Glimmerglass Opera
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TOP CLASSICAL CDs list by OPERA NEWS - The Greater Good; Passion of Boule de Suif - Glimmerglass Opera
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GRAMMY NOMINATION for BEST OPERA RECORDING - The Mines of Sulphur - Glimmerglass Opera
Recital - Photo by Zach Stottler at Luther College
Caroline Worra
