Reviews
Mimì – La bohème, ENO
The performances are glorious. Valentine has the seeming ability to unleash tremendous depths of emotion with the most restrained means…5 Stars
Tim Ashley, The Guardian
Musetta – La bohème, WNO
David Kempster and Kate Valentine presented a splendidly boisterous double act as Marcello and Musetta…a sparkling triumph for Welsh National Opera
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph
Brahm’s Requiem: RSNO, Edinburgh/Glasgow, March 2012
Nor could we have wished for anything more searingly impressive than the solo pairing of Finley’s and Scots soprano Kate Valentine
Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman
The Marriage of Figaro, ENO 2011
By turns imperious mistress and victim, her “Dove sono”… ran a velvet-gloved finger through an open wound – its masochistic beauty unmatched for thrills during the evening
Alexandra Coghlan, New Statesman
Eugene Onegin
“Valentine identifies the steel in Tchaikovsky’s heroine, with a thrilling, healthful tone and absolute emotional engagement”
The Independent
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Kate Valentine and Allan Clayton (as Helena and Lysander respectively) are the pick of the lovers”…”impressively sung “
Classical Source
The Marriage of Figaro, Scottish Opera 2010
…the superb cast is wonderful. There are a million things to catch but, above all, do not miss the heady eroticism that flows between Kate Valentine’s gleaming Countess and the fantastically authoritative Cherubino of Ulrike Meyer: it will stop your heart.
Michael Tumelty, Herald Scotland
Elegy For Young Lovers
ENO assembled a terrific cast…Kate Valentine’s ripening soprano sounded glorious as Elisabeth
Hugh Canning, Opera, Elegy for Young Lovers, English National Opera @ the Young Vic 2010
A Little Night Music
The singers in the Liebeslieder quintet are outstanding…
Financial Times, A Little Night Music, Théâtre du Châtelet
Die Rheinnixen
Kate Valentine brought a vibrant soprano crowned with a smooth coloratura technique to Armgard and gave the ‘Vaterlandslied’ due solemnity
Opera, Die Rheinnixen, New Sussex Opera, 2009
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Hopkins had plenty of musical strengths to play to, notably in the considerable muscle, not to say agility, that Kate Valentine brought to Constanze’s terrifying coloratura. Her emotional tug-of-love between the pressing Pasha and handsome young Spaniard was all too real
Opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Opera North 2009
The Magic Flute
Although all three of the Ladies were good, there was no doubting that Kate Valentine was the most outstanding of the three: her beauty of tone, witty acting and clear diction suggest that she might be an excellent Pamina in the future
MusicalCriticism.com, The Magic Flute, English National Opera 2009
Riders to the Sea
The sisters, Nora and Kathleen, are vividly characterised by Claire Booth and Kate Valentine
The Guardian, Riders to the Sea, English National Opera 2008
The Two Widows
Kate Valentine’s sprightly Karolina suggested a star in the making, beautifully poised, witty and commanding the stage with her striking presence
The Sunday Times, The Two Widows, Scottish Opera 2008
5: 15
…the finest performance came from Kate Valentine, whose vibrant soprano, crisp diction and ardent presence lent […] a degree of glamour
The Independent, Five:15, Scottish Opera 2008
