graceful, finished phrasing and an apparently effortless coloratura technique...Without over-egging the pudding, Kurzak acts vividly for a 'blind' audience, alive to verbal nuance and using coloratura not merely as a vote-catching circus trick, but to enhance character.

Kurzak has a technique which dazzles just as vividly as her engaging stage presence and, from its initial spin, this disc left me in a blissful state of uncritical delight...Kurzak draws great drama and meaning from the texts...Simply outstanding.

She sparkles in the duet with Figaro from the Barber, Dunque io son, and Fiorilla’s big scena from Turco, but sounds pushed by the high drama of the soprano arias in L’assedio di Corinto, Sigismondo and Tancredi.