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Dallas Opera - Die Zauberflöte
“Amanda Pabyan is a pleasantly perky Papagena.”
-Dallas Morning News, 2006
Kentucky Opera - Thaïs
The coloratura melismas and alluring dancing of Amanda Pabyan as La Charmeuse were an especially attractive highlight.
-Opera, 2005
Glimmerglass Opera - Imeneo
“…Mr. Alden has coaxed some risk-taking performances from his splendid cast... Amanda Pabyan, a brilliant coloratura, was delightful in her multishaded portrayal of Rosmene.”
-New York Times, August 4, 2004
“ Pabyan's mad scene (here, she became increasingly drunk, grabbing the half-emptied glasses of her lovers) was performed with increasing passion, growing hysteria and a momentous final collapse -- but not before singing (while prone on the dining room table) a perfect series of trills with great agility that ended in a stunning F.”
-Ithaca Journal, 2004
“Best of all were the Rosmene of Amanda Pabyan and the Tirinto of Michael Maniaci. Ms. Pabyan is a soprano of fearsome agility and power.”
-New York Observer, August 16, 2004
North Carolina Symphony - Fauré Requiem
“If you can label a movement as the "hit" of this Requiem, it would definitely be the exquisite "Pie Jesu" section, with soprano solo. Amanda Pabyan gave a beautifully controlled and delicate performance of this treacherously exposed, gorgeous solo. That alone was worth the price of admission.”
-Classical Voice North Carolina, February 2004
New York City Opera – Die Zauberflöte
“Soprano Amanda Pabyan, slim and pretty, tore into the Queen of the Night’s arias with whistling high notes, precision and surprising heat; the audience cheered her.”
-Opera News, 2004
“In her City Opera debut, Amanda Pabyan, a gifted young coloratura soprano, gave technically agile, clarion-toned and incisive accounts of the Queen's fearsomely difficult arias.”
-The New York Times, 2003
