Birsan (as Asteria) brought ravishing timbre, probing musicality and a pearly legato…”

Opera Magazine - December 2024

“Ardent and luminous…”

The Guardian London - 2019

...absolutely mesmerizing

as Violetta. . . it’s Emily Birsan’s fragile sweetness and fluid voice that centers the entire thing from the very first scene.

This opera is about Violetta, and the Lyric has a superb one here.”

-Splash Magazine