Contemporary Opera
The Conquistador, World Premiere. San Diego Opera 1997.photo: ML Hart
The Conquistador, Doña Francisca
World Premiere by Myron Fink
Adria Firestone…a light in the darkness…
San Diego Union-Tribune, March ‘97
Nashville Opera 2001
Regina, Regina
‘Regina voices magnificent malevolence’. It helps of course, that this production is so well acted by Adria Firestone who gives the title character an openly flirtatious, self-dramatizing quality that turns magnificently nasty when it needs to. . .Firestone’s repellent Regina is particularly watchable. Beckoning the other characters to her, her long fingers undulate like tentacles. And when she is in full Iago mode, declaring her contempt for meekness and her lust for wealth and power (“the things I could do with things,” she sings, her mouth almost watering), her snarling, wolverine-like countenance is positively frightening.”
The Tennessean 2001
Adria Firestone as Regina recalls the Elizabeth Taylor of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? An accomplished actress as well as singer, Firestone has a sensuous beauty and intimidating charisma onstage that invites comparisons with the legendary older actress. And she has a big, rich, subtly expressive voice that she uses with comparable versatility.
Nashville Scene 2001
El Amor Brujo. Florida Grand Opera 1994. photo: Debra Hesser
El Amor Brujo & La Vida Breve
The mezzo-soprano Adria Firestone was a stupendous incarnation of the gypsy character Candelas. Here she showed her excellent dramatic qualitities: she recited, she danced, and took maximum advantage of the brief time she had to exhibit her beautiful voice…Adria also intervened as the Grandmother in La Vida Breve, a totally opposite role to the first… handled with complete mastery.
Diario las Americas, USA Feb ‘94
The Medium, Florida Grand Opera. photo: Bill Scherer
The Medium, Madame Flora
Adria Firestone reminds us again that the human voice is the most powerful, sensitive, flexible and profound of all instruments. In the role as The Medium, in Menotti’s two-act tragedy, hers is thrilling and chilling. To go with it is an acting portrayal of tremendous dimensions…
Tribune, USA July ‘86
…a superb performance…with lovely mezzo-soprano Adria Firestone giving a top-flight, chilling interpretation of the central role…
Palm Beach Daily News, USA Nov ‘80
Tightrope, Kathryn
World Premiere by Chester Biscardi
Adria Firestone was stunning vocally and visually…
Opera News, Jan ‘86
