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Violetta
La Traviata
Photography by Ali Wright
“Alison Langer’s Violetta is an outstanding creation and surely the peak of the soprano’s career so far. Any singer has to work hard to encompass the notes Verdi wrote to describe this complex, fully human character, and here nothing is missing in a three-dimensional portrayal that is deeply moving in its emotional reality.”
George Hall - The Stage
Frasquita
Carmen
Gilda
Rigoletto
Photography by Craig Fuller
“Into the maelstrom is thrust a wonderful performance: Alison Langer as Gilda. Langer nails every note in the middle with confidence, expressivity and a deliciously warm timbre….this is a young soprano destined for great things.”
David Karlin – Bachtrack
“Alison Langer’s beautifully sung Gilda a standout… provides the best singing, capturing in her soprano all the sweetness Verdi assigns to Rigoletto’s closeted daughter Gilda while giving the character a determined edge that reaches beyond the self-sacrificing element of her story.”
Erica Jeal - The Guardian
“Alison Langer’s Gilda was a different story, happily. The vocal assurance – bang in the middle of the note – is the perfect match for the character’s burgeoning personhood in Stinton’s production, and her coloratura in “Caro nome” – especially the nosebleed-high trills – was razor-sharp. When she needed power it was there in spades, defiantly soaring over the orchestra in the Act two finale as she makes the case for mercy over vengeance (vocal and moral strength of a piece). Her dying duet with her father shimmered – a searing performance.”
Operawire – Benjamin Poore
Nedda
I Pagliacci
Photography by Ali Wright
“Alison Langer’s Nedda has a worldly, imperious quality…..rich in bel canto lusciousness, Langer merged wilfulness and vulnerability in solo pieces such as Stridono lassù.”
The Arts Desk – Boyd Tonkin
“Langer, exquisite in Stridono Lassù, confronts him with furious intensity later on when he pushes her beyond breaking point.”
Tim Ashley – The Guardian
Violetta
La Traviata
Photography by Richard H. Smith
“Alison Langer’s Violetta…her quiet organization of the Act 1 double aria seemed to emanate from a singer of much wider experience: her coloratura was calmy controlled…phrasing succulently spacious….On this showing, she is at the start of something really big: certainly she looks and sounds ready for it.”
Martin Dreyer - Opera Magazine
“Alison Langer is an extraordinary Violetta. She’s convincingly coquettish in the opening act and offers a hint of the drama and tragedy to come. Her performance in the final act is so powerful, that it’s almost hard to watch. She also delivers a note perfect rendition of Violetta’s stand out aria Sempre Libera..”
John Murphy - The Stage
Adina
L’elisir d’amore
"As for Alison Langer as Adina, she acted with the star quality of a West End diva, sang Donizetti’s low-dipping figures as ravishingly as his high lying coloratura and revelled in the attention of her onstage suitors and a rapt open-air audience.”
Mark Valencia – Opera Magazine
Young Heidi
Follies
“and the ecstatic operetta duet “One More Kiss” by the great classical soprano, Josephine Barstow, making her NT debut at 78, and the astonishing Alison Langer.”
The Independent
Micaëla
Carmen
