Operawire
Mauricio Villa
Jessica Pratt Reminds Us Why She’s The Lucia of Our Time
With a lirica-leggera voice, a crystalline timbre, long fiato and brilliant, secure high notes, she portrayed a fragile woman who is nonetheless very determined to fight for her love and confront her brother before finally succumbing to madness.
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She concluded her performance doing a crescendo on her final never-ending high E flat; when the note was well secure and ringing, she managed to make it bigger, almost as if Lucia was screaming desperately. It was a cry from her soul and it was utterly astounding.
OperaWorld
Robert Benito
Lucia di Lammermoor with Jessica Pratt: Brilliant season closing for Les Arts
But where is it that singing was transformed in magic, purity, beauty, simplicity where there is complexity, purely theatrical and authentically dramatic was undoubtedly in Jessica Pratt's Lucia.
Every vocal contribution did nothing but consume and augment the singing bliss in a way that hadn't happened since some time for a role so worn out by sopranos that indulge in spectacularity rather than musicality.
The balance and the deceptive ease with which Jessica Pratt sings had the whole theatre stand up in front of this marvel of a voice.
Backtrack
Juan José Freijo
A feminist Lucia?: Jessica Pratt stars in Lucia di Lammermoor at Palau de les Arts
Pratt builds her mad scene on the basis of magnificent pianissimi, moving and introspective; floated notes blended effortlessly with incontestable silences loaded with tension. She reserved the forte and the high notes to express delirium; the guilt and paranoia revealed through impetuous phrasing and madness snaps. Towards the end, bel canto gives way to drama and leaves us with a performance to remember.
Beckmesser
An aesthetical Lucia against the dramaturgy
She obviously embroided the famous mad scene that, more than a generous and spectacular exhibition of vocal medium and clean singing school, became the peak of a performance entirely exceptional, loaded with intensity, belcanto sensibility, control of the agilities and dramatic conviction.
Europa Pres
An indomitable Lucia di Lammermoor with Jessica Pratt's voice shines in Les Arts
An indomitable Lucia di Lammermoor with Jessica Pratt's voice shines in Les Arts [...] The show garnered several minutes of a standing ovation from the audience in recognition to the vocal cast lead by an extraordinary Jessica Pratt.