Emilia,
Flavio (Handel)
New York City Opera
"Marguerite Krull sang beautifully as Emilia,
especially in the lament. Indeed, Ms. Krull proved to be
the most adept Handel interpreter of the bunch with her florid,
effortless cadenzas."
Sarah
Gerk, Opera Today
"In the role of Emilia, the original name of
the opera, the soprano Marguerite Krull showed agility and
virtuosity in her singing, exhibiting a warm, clear timbre, with
delicacy and a knowledge of the style."
Ramón
Jacques, Pro
Ópera
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Cherubino, Le
nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Lyric
Opera of Chicago
"The big news Wednesday was the promising
Lyric debut of American soprano Marguerite Krull as the love-sick
pageboy Cherubino. Krull has numerous Mozart heroines
to her credit in the U.S. and abroad, including Susanna, Despina,
Pamina and Dorabella. The voice is fresh, steady and
attractive, and her embellishments in both arias showed her
to be a remarkably stylish musician. Krull looked and
acted the part well, darting about the stage with gawky abandon
- a woman playing a teenage boy disguised as a woman… Catch
Krull if you can."
John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
"A new Figaro and new Cherubino added welcome fizz to
an already charming production. American soprano Marguerite
Krull was the previously scheduled newcomer… Her clear,
focused soprano gave Cherubino a shot of adrenaline, making
the lovesick page something of an unpredictable firecracker. Tall
and slim, she was an eager young swain to warm the heart."
Wynne Delacoma, Chicago
Sun Times
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Ciprigna (title role), La
capricciosa corretta (Martin
y Soler)
Recording, Naïve label
"Marguerite Krull fills
this key role delightfully, with the needed determined charm,
excellent style and Lucia Popp-like lyric clarity."
David Shengold, Opera News
Opéra de Lausanne
"The role of Ciprigna is a fabulous soprano showcase,
packed with laughing coloratura and opera-seria-escapee rage
arias in equal measure…and really well sung by Marguerite
Krull - agile, rich-toned, dramatic"
Robert Thicknesse, Opera Now
"The title role excellently played
by the American Marguerite Krull, who passes from one aria
reminiscent of Così fan
tutte to another in the style of Rossini."
Jacques Doucelin, Le Figaro
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Desdemona, Otello (Rossini)
Caramoor
International Music Festival
"It remained for Marguerite Krull
to achieve the most finely shaded and shaped singing of the
evening in Desdemona's willow song and prayer, for which
the audience rewarded her with the highest compliment: awed
silence."
John W. Freeman , Opera
News
"The fullest characterization is that
of Desdemona… Marguerite Krull brought rich, rosy sound
and lyrical sensitivity to her portrayal."
Anthony Tommasini, The
New York Times
"Soprano Marguerite Krull is a vocal treasure. Her
tone is pure, her pitch is true and the sound is beautiful
throughout her range. She breezed through considerable
difficulties and sang superbly as Desdemona in Rossini's "Otello" on
Saturday evening at Caramoor in Katonah. Ordinarily,
I would not begin a review that way but I wanted to make sure
that one of the most important aspects of the performance got
across right away."
Francis Brancaleone, The Journal News
"Marguerite Krull - a regular
star of bel canto evenings
at Caramoor - was superb, her embellishments skillfully and
beautifully worked into the line to create long phrases of
perfect naturalness. Her sound had been pure before;
now it had a silvery delicacy."
Paul Griffiths, Andante.com
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Acrimante (title role), L'empio
punito (Alessandro
Melani)
Oper Leipzig
"The most impressive [of the voices]…above
all that of Marguerite Krull, with remarkable intensity in
the role of Acrimante."
Opéra International
"Krull dominated both in sweet melodiousness as well
as sharp timbered passion. She shaped a love aria ever
as surely as a rage aria"
Helmut
Mauro, Süddeutsche
Zeitung
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Despina, Così fan
tutte (Mozart)
Washington Opera
"Miss Krull's worldly young servant
not only soared in a couple of choice arias but also managed
to impersonate both a notary and a mesmerist with a wonderfully
over-the-top sense of slapstick."
T.L. Ponick, The Washington Times
"And then there is the sisters' maid Despina, the most
comic of the opera's roles, but often played crudely. Not
so here, with soprano Marguerite Krull, a brilliant Sesto in
the company's recent Giulio Cesare, bringing to the
role a masterful blend of cynicism and frivolity. One
could not imagine a better accomplice for Don Alfonso."
Ronald G. Precup, Intermission
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The Child, L'enfant
et les sortilèges (Ravel)
National Symphony Orchestra
"The top-notch cast was headed by Marguerite
Krull, sporting a baseball cap worn backwards and conveying
all the sulky body language of a spoiled kid. Her warm,
flexible voice and superbly detailed phrasing had a disarming
impact."
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
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Ninetta, La gazza ladra (Rossini)
Caramoor
International Music Festival
"The soprano Marguerite Krull
sang with suitable sweetness and simplicity of tone as Ninetta,
and maintained those qualities even when the score was demanding
the whirligigs she executed so beautifully."
Paul Griffiths, The New York Times
"The youthful cast was dominated by
two virtuosic stylists, the dauntlessly poised, wide-ranging
soprano Marguerite Krull as Ninetta…"
Martin Bernheimer, Opera
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Sesto, Giulio
Cesare (Handel)
Washington
Opera
"Soprano Marguerite Krull was a delight in the "trouser
role" of Sextus, Pompey's young son who must grow up almost
overnight to protect his mother and avenge his father… Miss
Krull's light-textured voice lends credibility to the part
she is playing, and she's pretty good with a sword, too."
T.L. Ponick, The Washington Times
"Sextus, sung by soprano Marguerite
Krull, was also fully limned into a convincingly adolescent
spark plug, bubbling with Oedipal desires and steeled to
the purpose of revenge."
Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post
"Most convincing were mezzo Catherine Keen as the widow
Cornelia and soprano Marguerite Krull as her stepson Sesto,
ravishing together in "Son nata a sospirar," the
lament duet that closes Act I."
Pierre Ruhe, Opera
News
"For the rest, I thought highly
of Marguerite Krull's boyish Sextus; she is a real Handelian."
Martin Mayer, Opera
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Giulietta, I
Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini)
Berkshire
Opera Company
"As Giulietta, Marguerite Krull
revealed a gleaming soprano, even throughout, with a hefty
middle range and flexibility that generally navigated Bellini's
florid score with superb style, punctuated with a rippling
trill, even when the composer did not demand it, and an exquisite
piano."
Richard Houdek, The Berkshire Eagle
"Finest among the singers was soprano Marguerite Krull
as Giulietta. This former mezzo did especially well musically
and emotionally by "O quante volte" and Bellini's
original death scene."
Leighton Kerner, Opera News
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The Daughter, Jepthe (Carissimi)
American Bach Soloists
"Soprano Marguerite Krull gave
a brilliant performance as the daughter - her singing fiercely
pure and searching, her technique beyond reproach."
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
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Belle, La
belle et la bête (Philip
Glass)
Oakland Opera
"There is a wondrous pair of leads: the internationally-known
soprano Marguerite Krull as Belle, with a powerful, soaring
voice, and strong, affecting stage presence…"
Janos Gereben, Oakland Tribune
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Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro
New York City Opera
"A brilliant standout in the cast was Marguerite Krull
as Cherubino. With her gorgeous voice and lively stage
presence, she seemed worthy of the roster of the neighboring
Metropolitan Opera."
Olin Chism, The Dallas Morning News
"Soprano Marguerite Krull was
totally convincing as the youthfully spirited, amorous Cherubino,
fleet of voice and action"
Ruth Berges, Opera Canada
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