Caroline Worra
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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
Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera copyright 2011 ________________________________________________________
"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
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Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera copyright 2011 ________________________________________________________
"A singer without Worra's warm naturalistic delivery couldn't pull this off." Joshua Rosenblum - Opera News
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"...singing and acting with an arresting emotional rawness." Marion Ligana Rosenberg - Opera News
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"Caroline Worra is a compelling performer with quite extraordinary technical abilities." David Shengold - Opera News
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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
Photo by Jeffrey Dunn at Boston Lyric Opera copyright 2011 ________________________________________________________
"...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
