Eugene Onegin

“..Valentine identifies the steel in Tchaikovsky’s heroine, with a thrilling, healthful tone and absolute emotional engagement. Much like Amanda Echalaz’s breakthrough performance as Holland Park’s Floria Tosca, this is a whole-body, whole-voice match of artist to role. Blackheath can be proud that they heard it first.”
Anna Picard, The Independent – Full Review

“Kate Valentine’s superb Tatyana dominates (it surely won’t be long before we see this performance in one of the big houses)”
Simon Thomas, WhatsOnStage.com – Full Review

“The professional cast is headed by Kate Valentine’s Tanya, radiant with optimistic innocence in the ‘letter scene’”
Graham Rogers, The Stage Online – Full Review

“I particularly liked Kate Valentine’s change from diffident ingénue … to assured princess”
Nick Breckenfield, The Classical Source – Full Review

“New Faces: …Kate Valentine was a fierce and vulnerable Tatiana in the Blackheath Eugene Onegin”
Anna Picard, The Independent Arts Review of 2011 – Full Article