"Sandra Piques Eddy as Isabella is ideal with her rich, florid mezzo (She hit the low notes thrillingly)"

"As Isabella, Sandra Piques Eddy strides about the stage, whip in hand, charm to spare, her dark, honey-glutted mezzo-soprano agile and enticing."

"Sandra Piques Eddy is perfect as a Katharine Hepburn, pants wearing, independent woman named Isabella looking for her lost love Lindoro...Eddy clearly shines brightest, as she loves her role as an Isabella who can tame men with a look or a wave."

"Sandra Piques Eddy's Isabella was a toothsome confection...a radiant stage presence, she has a plush mezzo voice and used it to great effect particularly in her arias "Per lui, che adoro" and "Pensa alla patria."

"Top of the line is American mezzo Sandra Piques Eddy as Cherubino, the only singer who consistently cuts through the orchestra."

"Here's that most auspicious of pairings in the operatic world: a good singer and actor. Typing of which, Sandra Piques Eddy, as the youthful lustmuffin Cherubino, is equally magnificent. Her mezzo is a resonant, rich sound that is capable of both power and delicacy, just at the right moments. Her tone, as well as good body language, lend believability to her male part, even as she manages a bit of menace in her harassment of the Countess."

"Another standout is Sandra Piques Eddy as Cherubino, who manages to convince as a woman playing a man sometimes playing a woman."

"Eddy is made for the role of Cherubino and splendidly captures the character's mischievousness and boyish ardor."

"A young page named Cherubino is not only Susanna's lover but he is also the back-door man to almost every woman in the court. Mezzo-Soprano Sandra Piques Eddy's portrayal of this adolescent male is hilariously convincing as she lopes around like a horny boy with her classically beautiful face. Imagine Uma Thurman playing Tom Sawyer."

"As the squabbling lovers, the young attractive singing actors Joseph Kaiser and Sandra Piques Eddy are ideally cast. When we saw the headstrong Beatrice and the smug Benedict frozen in spotlit longing, we knew they would wind up in each other's arms eventually. Eddy (well-remembered for Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at COT in 2005) and Kaiser (one of the star alums of the Lyric's Ryan Opera Center) generated the chemistry needed to make their romantic jousting fully believable. Eddy's rich, pliant voice had the supple mezzo colorations needed to convey the heroine's proud coltish spirit, yet also commanded the lyrical warmth to show us the vulnerability Beatrice kept hidden beneath her bemused exterior. Kaiser and Eddy were marvelous together."

"The warm rosy mezzo of Sandra Piques Eddy seems ideal to the role, to my thinking, making Beatrice a thoughtful cynic instead of an unstable neurotic. She brought great ardor to her ACT II "Dieu, Que viens-je d'entendre?" and rode the following scales of "Il m'en souvient" with sparkling aplomb."

"The young lovers are exquisitely sung by mezzo Sandra Piques Eddy, who sang Cherubino in "Marriage of Figaro" at COT two seasons ago and has since gone on to do so at the Met, and tenor Joseph Kaiser, fresh off of Lyric's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" and the Tamino in the upcoming Kenneth Branagh film adaptation of Mozart's "The Magic Flute". Not only do the lovers sound great, but they have charismatic chemistry portraying a couple passionate about one another even when they are sparring."

"As the lovers, tenor Joseph Kaiser and mezzo Sandra Piques Eddy seem born to their lyrical parts and to their stage feuding-loving as well."

"The two leads Sandra Piques Eddy (Beatrice) and Joseph Kaiser (Benedict) were absolutely phenomenal. Typically for performers, acting is either -or not both. The two leads were so good at both, that I could not tell whether they started as actors or singers. They always left me wanting more be it dialogue or singing"

"Dark timbred Sandra Piques Eddy....her progression from Beatrice's caustic posturing to flooding tenderness was three-hanky touching. Eddy's Act II aria, "Il men souvient" delivered with genuine warmth(and an excellent pianissimo) earned her the biggest applause of the evening."

"Likewise, the nimble singing of mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy sparkled."

"A strong degree of characterization emerges, abetted by the casting- a svelte hottie (the glamorous Sandra Piques Eddy) as Dorabella, as foil to a more retiring Fiordiligi (Julianna DiGiacomo). This Dorabella and her sporty Guglielmo (Kyle Pfortmiller) strike erotic sparks in their Act II duet, which proves the dramatic tipping point. At the final curtain, the director's frozen tableau, showing these two still fascinated with one another despite the apparent reconciliation of the original pairings, seemed to arise naturally from the spontaneous force of the couple's earlier fling. The performers have attractive voices to match their energetic acting, especially the assured Eddy and Pfortmiller, who dominated their scenes with aplomb."