REVIEWS

Manhattan Diaries
Recital with Steven Blier at Wolf Trap

"Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird was playful and humorous, but her best moments arrived in poignant numbers, such as "What Shall We Remember?" During the second half of the aptly named "Manhattan Diaries" recital, which was as searingly personal as the first half was raucously funny, her lively, sinewy soprano had room to unfurl fully in "The Lordly Hudson."
- The Washington Post

"Anne-Carolyn Bird displayed consummate vocal control and shimmering tone in Ned Rorem's The Lordly Hudson."
- Charles T. Downey, ionarts.org

Volpone, Wolf Trap Opera

"sweet-voiced Anne-Carolyn Bird"
- The Washington Post

"soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird (Celia) and tenor Steven Sanders (Bonario), as ill-fated young lovers, provide humor, pathos and wonderful singing to round out their Monty Python-esque characters."
- The Washington Times

"...musically and dramatically strong..."
- Ionarts.com

I have some light: Songs of Spirit
Recital with Jocelyn Dueck

"If you missed this concert, you missed something far more personal and touching than your everyday lieder concert. Particularly in the Barber and Harbison selections, Bird proved herself a singer capable of not merely delivering the notes—although she certainly did—but also of getting under the skin of a piece, touching its inner passions and revealing them to a listener."
- Steve Smith of Time Out New York; writing at Night After Night

"Net Working"
(profile & recital previw)
Time Out New York, May 17, 2007

Cendrillon, The Santa Fe Opera

“…Anne-Carolyn Bird’s hideously winsome Noémie…”
- The Santa Fe New Mexican

“Second-year apprentices Anne-Carolyn Bird and Gabriela Garcia twittered and simpered hilariously as the stepsisters…”
- The Los Alamos Monitor

“Apprentices Anne-Carolyn Bird and Gabriela Garcia were hysterical as the stepsisters … with facial expressions, gestures, and vocal characterization evoking the vapid airheads the stepsisters are (not the singers).”
-Charles T. Downey, ionarts.org

La Pasion Segun San Marcos (Golijov), La Schola Cantorum de Caracas

“...luminous...”
- The New York Times

“Young soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird sang with a gorgeously clear and radiant tone.
- Anastasia Tsioulcas of Billboard, writing at Café Aman

“… Anne-Carolyn Bird fully assumed a role formerly occupied by Dawn Upshaw, and delivered an utterly wrenching "Lúa descolorida"... ”
- Steve Smith of Time Out New York, writing at Night After Night

“ Anne-Carolyn Bird [was] lovely in an interpolated sad song, ‘Colourless Moon’”
- Financial Times

Augusta Read Thomas’ In My Sky at Twilight, Alarm Will Sound

“ The soprano is pushed for long stretches into high, sustained and melodically fitful singing. … Anne-Carolyn Bird handled her assignment ably …”
- The New York Times

Venus & Adonis, Seattle Early Music Guild

“Anne-Carolyn Bird, as Cupid, was excellent…”
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“ But no one shone brighter than Anne-Carolyn Bird, who played the trouser role of Cupid with such sprightly energy, she practically floated on stage. Not only is her mellifluous voice enough to lead the children out of Hamlin town, her vocal ornamentation is extremely tasteful, and her stage presence nothing short of magnetic.”
-Seattle Times

A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Tanglewood Music Center

“…and Tytania herself, the radiant Anne-Carolyn Bird, could give Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, or Alice Faye a run for her money, especially in her backless, sleeveless evening gown. … Bird negotiated her coloratura with finesse.”
-Opera News

“Stefan Asbury conducted an able and sometimes superior cast. Anne-Carolyn Bird, as Tytania, and Charles Temkey, as Bottom, played their love scene to the hilarious hilt.”
- The New York Times

“… a fine ensemble effort with some star-quality individual performances. Former New England Conservatory soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird was glamorously luminescent in Tytania's coloratura;”
-The Boston Globe

“The principal singers, TMC Vocal Fellows all, were fine across the board, with nimble soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird (Tytania) and powerful tenor Randall Bills (Lysander) a cut above the rest.”
- The Republican