``Powerful``
The NY Times
“Sexy, sparky, sensational.”
The Toronto Star
“Braid received the biggest ovations for her coloratura fireworks.”
OPERA
U.K.
“a ravishing creature of glacially cold evil, which made the sharply carved icicle notes she dispensed during her signature Act II aria seem all the more appropriate.”
The Toronto Star
“We all knew that Ambur Braid had splendid highs, but what perhaps we don’t get to hear as often is how attractive and meaty her lower register is. The songs showed what a fabulous chiaroscuro voice she is. Somebody cast her in some Verdi, stat.”
Definitelytheopera.com
“Is there a smarter singer in this city? Yes we’ve noticed how attractive she is, how effortless her high coloratura, but let me repeat, I think she’s very intelligent. For a few minutes she stood before us riffing on the wives of Henry the VIIIth almost like a stand-up comic, giving us the background while enacting a kind of distancing Brecht would have loved. “
Barczablog