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"Samuel Evans, luxury casting as Kilian"
OPERA, September 2011
"The part of Don Alfonso is often given to a veteran, logically enough in view of his supposed worldly wisdom but his singing may be accompanied by a feeling of caution in vocally negotiating the part. There was no such reservation with Samuel Evans’s assumption of the part. His bass-baritone was resonant of timbre and confident in delivery, the text in recitative delivered with consistent clarity."
classicalsource.com, July 2011
"Perhaps Samuel Evans's Garibaldo was a bit too psychotic, a roaring, torturing, raping monster, but Evans sang and acted it with commendable relish - and, again, the voice was terrific, with great presence and control."
OPERA, May 2011