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work of the coloratura of "Je veux vivre."
- Opera News, October, 2008
"Soprano Jennifer Black, as Juliette, stole the show from her beginning
aria, which Gounod seems to have written to show off the remarkable
talents of a particular diva. She has the rare combination of a
gorgeous voice, physical beauty and acting ability to make the
character thoroughly believable."
- Portland Press Herald, July, 2008
"Jennifer Black was a revelation as Mimi. Her soprano was gleaming and
glorious, with wonderful nuances of light and shade and complete
dynamic control. She showed the little seamstress’s shyness, archness
and saucy ardor perfectly, and her arias were meltingly sung. Her sad Act
III duet with Corey McKern...was one of the best I’ve ever heard."
-Santa Fe New Mexican, June, 2007
"Jennifer Black, who made such an impression on everyone last year
when she sang the role of Micaela in Carmen, returns here to sing Mimi.
The voice is just as striking - clear, bright and radiant with a beautifully
focused tone. In her first act narrative at the words “Ma quando vien lo
sgelo” the spring did indeed bloom forth with a burst of color. So too in the
third act “Rodolfo m’ama e mi fugge” came arresting tones both dulcet
and impassioned."
-Albuquerque Journal, June, 2007
Jennifer Black, last season’s Micaela, makes a lustrous-voiced Mimí with
a gift for floating pianissimos, notably in a memorable Addio, senza
rancor! No timid, virginal consumptive here, this Mimí knows exactly what
she’s about, from “losing” her key to dumping Rodolfo for a wealthy, if
invisible, suitor.
-Santa Fe Reporter, July, 2007
“Jennifer Black, an apprentice last year, sang an
affecting, sentimental Micaëla; her grand scena in Act
III belonged to a different world than that of petty
criminality.”
-Opera News, November, 2006
“Jennifer Black made a sweet but steely Micaëla”
-San Francisco Chronicle, August, 2006
"The evening's revelation was soprano Jennifer Black,
a 2005 Santa Fe Opera apprentice. She lit up the stage
as Micaëla, with her pleasingly dulcet voice
highlighted by nice, rounded tones and an adroit sense
of phrasing."
-Denver Post, August, 2006
"Jennifer Black was fetching in a properly unassuming
way as Micaëla".
-New York Times, August, 2006
"The bright, well-focused tenor of William Joyner as Don Jose and the
warm innocently-sensual soprano of Jennifer Black come together most
effectively in the first-act duet in which both reveal much about their
respective characters. Even still we were taken by surprise by Black’s
impassioned rendering of the later aria “Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante”
(I tell myself nothing frightens me) which brought shouts of “bravo.”"
-Albuquerque Journal, July, 2006
"Jennifer Black, a sensitive, rich-voiced soprano"
-New York Times – Met National Council Auditions, 2000
"In three Strauss songs, Jennifer's sense of ecstasy
was in full bloom for 'Zueignung' and the awesome
sustained crescendo at the climax of 'Befreit' was the
vocal stunner of the evening. Her quietly poetic
'Morgen' beautifully expressed the sense of dreamy
contentment."
-Oberon's Grove, April, 2007