AGRIPPINA
AGRIPPINA
Ars Lyrica Houston
November 2018
"Sofia Selowsky...brought Agrippina’s arias a flair and full-throatedness that captured all the scheme-queen’s wiliness. The dramatic contrasts Selowsky gave Agrippina’s biggest aria were still more compelling."
ARTS & CULTURE TEXAS
"Selowsky’s wealth of vocal colors brought Agrippina’s stratagems to life— Even her recitatives crackled. But Selowsky’s vigor and agility made the arias more potent still. The peak came in “Pensieri, voi mi tormentate...” Selowsky ranged from half-tones that exuded fear to full-throated outcries, and she spun out pianissimo phrases that made time stand still."
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
FLIGHT
STEWARDESS
Des Moines Metro Opera
June & July 2018
“As the perpetually horny Stewardess and Steward, Sofia Selowsky and Theo Hoffman were vocally lustrous and theatrically unrestrained. Ms. Selowsky sports a wonderfully ripe mezzo, warm throughout, gleaming on top...Together, they complemented each other musically and dramatically, as they provocatively worked their way through the Kama Sutra, unselfconsciously simulating all manner of randy sexual abandon.”
OPERA TODAY
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
ROSINA
Houston Grand Opera
January 2018
"The brightest light of the performance was mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky as Rosina, whose singing featured a honey-rich sound with a silvery top end, even projection throughout her range, and amazingly clear passagework."
OPERA NEWS
"Mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky was a warm-voiced Rosina, bringing dash to the comic moments and lightness–more than electricity–to the vocal acrobatics. Her “Una voce poco fa” brought out allure and charm–both Rosina’s and the music’s..."
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
"As Rosina, Selowsky...showed herself to be a great executrix of coloratura, even more transcendently so than one normally expects... She showed herself to be a fluent and entirely natural actress to the extent that at times I perceived this to be Beaumarchais's play with great background music."
SCHMOPERA
"Sofia Selowsky, as feisty Rosina, negotiated Rossini's tricky vocal filigree with winning dexterity and personality."
HOUSTON PRESS
TRIAL
FRAU GRUBACH/
WASHERWOMAN
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
June 2017
“Sofia Selowsky, as the promiscuous Washerwoman, had a tone as inky as night winds.”
OPERA NEWS
“Sofia Selowsky was such a free-wheeling, sexed-up Washerwoman, her stage antics almost upstage her beautifully free, rich-toned mezzo. She also shone in her doubling as Frau Grubach and Woman.”
OPERA TODAY
“Sofia Selowsky gives fine voice and great variety to several roles.”
BROADWAY WORLD
“Mezzo soprano Sofia Selowsky showed plenty of range as K’s landlady, Frau Grubach, as well as the sexually adventurous wife of the Court Usher.”
STAGE LEFT
THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY
April 2017
“Two sad Andalusion folk songs are the expressive high points of the ballet. Mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky sang the first song from the left rear of the stage and the second from the rear balcony. Her voice easily projected throughout the hall, sounding like chocolate syrup topping de Falla’s sonically rich orchestration.”
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
BUTTERFLY
SUZUKI
Houston Grand Opera
February 2015
“The rest of the cast comprised members of the HGO Studio: Sofia Selowsky (Suzuki), a silvery-luminescent mezzo-soprano of power and poise, made a superb match with Martínez in their duet singing during Act II.”
OPERA NEWS
“Making her HGO debut, Selowsky sings with a unique zeal—she’s a singer to look out for in the future.”
HOUSTONIA MAGAZINE
“As Butterfly's servant Suzuki, mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky complemented Martinez through her voice's warmth and weight.”
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
ELIZA
Houston Grand Opera
May 2016
“[Ms. Selowsky’s] voice was richly colored, both shaded AND powerful, and a pleasure to listen to.”
CLASSICAL VOICE HOUSTON
THE FOX
Houston Grand Opera
December 2015
“I was particularly taken with mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky's interpretation of The Fox…She manages it with great sophistication, and her scene with the Prince was definitely the high point of the second act.”
CULTUREMAP HOUSTON
DER ROSE
PILGERFAHRT
THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY
October 2015
“Orozco-Estrada elicited all the bucolic melodiousness and gentle emotions that define the work… Sopranos Yulia van Doren and Elizabeth Toy Botero sang brightly, and Sofia Selowsky fielded a ripe mezzo.”
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
2015 CRITICS' CHOICE
FEATURE:
"Sofia Selowsky on the way up"
"Mezzo-soprano Sofia Selowsky graduated with a Master’s degree from CCM in 2014. In the brief space of two years she has moved rapidly in her career, transforming herself from promising young singer into a very busy up and coming artist..."
