ERIN ALFORD
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DON BUCEFALO
Agata
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT
2024
“Erin Alford is entrancing as Agata, the town’s busybody, her mezzo-soprano voice adding richness to the ensembles. Her comic timing was spot-on as she navigated her character’s many missteps and misunderstandings.”
STAGE AND CINEMA
“He was surrounded by able singer-comedians, among them Véronique Filloux, Eric Botto, Dominic Salvati, Joel Balzun, Erin Alford and Mariah Rae, all of whom excellently mastered roles they likely will never have an opportunity to sing again. But in doing so, they have admirably lived up to Sharon’s anti-elite L.A. opera ideal of big-time breaking the frame.”
LA TIMES
RUSALKA
Ježibaba
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT 2024
“Mezzo-soprano Erin Alford also wowed as Ježibaba, infusing her scenes with humor and vocal richness. Her rendition of the witch’s incantation “Čury mury fuk” (the Czech equivalent of “Abracadabra”) was particularly memorable.”
STAGE AND CINEMA
GIANNI SCHICCHI/BUOSO'S GHOST
La Ciesca
FLORIDA GRAND OPERA
2023
“Erin Alford as La Ciesca brought beauty of timbre and vibrant stage personality to the devious Donati relative.”
SOUTH FLORIDA CLASSICAL REVIEW
EL MATRIMONIO SECRETO
Fidalma
FLORIDA GRAND OPERA
2022
“Erin Alford, statuesque and spunky, brought a powerful mezzo and exhibited the best sense of classical style in the cast.”
SOUTH FLORIDA CLASSICAL REVIEW
“La mezzo Erin Alford fue una excelente Fidalma.”
PRO ÓPERA
DIDO AND AENEAS
Second Woman
OPERA SAN JOSÉ
2021
“Mezzo-soprano Erin Alford gave a fluent performance as Dido’s second attendant...”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
DEAD MAN WALKING
Sister Helen Prejean
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL
2017
“Erin Alford drew a rounded and human portrait of the saintly Sister Helen, who works in a housing project school. The mezzo-soprano conveyed the doubts, humor, fear and vulnerability beneath the nun’s prim appearance and devout sensibility. In a church-bell-clear voice, she expressed her spiritual agitation as she pleaded for strength in approaching the prison and sang radiant words of comfort to the condemned man. As they bonded, sharing their love for Elvis Presley, he seemed less like a killer and she seemed less like a nun.”
SOUTH FLORIDA CLASSICAL REVIEW
“Un aplauso mayúsculo para Erin Alford como Sister Helen, rol con un peso y duración escénica muy difícil de manejar. La [mezzo] soprano se desempeñó con seguridad y matices y creó su personaje de manera muy convincente.”
“A huge round of applause for Erin Alford as Sister Helen, a role with a weight and stage duration that is very difficult to handle. The [mezzo] soprano performed with confidence and nuance and created her character very convincingly.”
EL NUEVO HERALD
CHÉRUBIN
Chérubin
CSULB OPERA
2017
"Erin Alford in the title role lit up the stage from her first entrance and exhibited a vocal sheen and a stage presence that mark her as a young artist with a bright future.”
THE GRUNION LONG BEACH
THE CRUCIBLE
Rebecca Nurse
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL
2016
“As the condemned Rebecca Nurse, Erin Alford made every brief appearance a highlight of the evening. Her final line before Rebecca’s hanging “another judgment awaits us all” rang with conviction.”
SOUTH FLORIDA CLASSICAL REVIEW