Dreams: Pretty Yende

"What a lovely sound Pretty Yende makes! Yende is in the same company as, say, Anna Moffo...She's certainly a great asset to the world of opera." ClassicsToday

"All showcase her beautiful, pearly timbre, her fluent coloratura - even if she lacks a proper trill - and confident, sweet high notes up to E flat...she is ideal for her unusually lyric and elegiac Lucia and Amina, both a far cry from the soubrettes we generally hear today. Sagripanti's Milan orchestra are the perfect accompanists." Sunday Times

"She begins with a nigh-on immaculate account of the waltz song from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. To the Mad scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor…she brings a pure and ethereal tone, entering into the character and her poignant situation within a world of her own beyond earthly reality." BBC Music

"South African Yende has a delicious instrument, with a youthful quiver of passion to it, and a wonderfully secure technique. She has a tendency perhaps to embellish for its own sake - I yield to none in my admiration of vocal pyrotechnics - but sometimes it comes across as showy rather than dramatically driven. Yet she can certainly deliver the goods, with some wonderful acuti thrown in too." Opera Now