Ms. Castle also added the role of Public Opinion in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld to her repertoire during Glimmerglass Opera's summer 2007 season. The lyre marked the third onstage instrument Miss Castle has performed in as few seasons: she played the cello as Lady Jane in Patience in Cooperstown in summer 2005, and is the only Widow Begbick in history to perform her own piano solo as she did in Opera Boston's Mahagonny in winter 2007. Read More...

"Strawberry Fields seduced me, along with the rest of the audience - not least because of a delicately heartbreaking star turn by Joyce Castle." The New Yorker Joyce Castle creating The Old Lady in Glimmerglass Opera's world premiere of Michel Torke and A.R. Gurney's Strawberry Fields (broacast nationwide on WNET TV (13) and recorded for Ecstatic Records). Read More...

"Having sung the Consul's obstructionist Secretary with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera and in Monte Carlo (directed by Menotti), Emily Golden currently owns the role. Her synergy with conductor Joel Revzen seemed effortless, and her seductive appearance in Magda's dream was elastic and assured." Opera News Emily Golden as The Secretary in Menotti's The Consul at Arizona Opera (Recorded for Newport Classics). Read More...

"Mr. Colaneri is on the staff of the Metropolitan Opera, where he will conduct Il Trittico again next Saturday. He is also the heart and brain of the Mannes opera program, which he took over, and reinvented, in 1998. Anyone who knows him only through his Met performances may have missed what is clearly a natural gift for pedagogy. As the rehearsal progressed, the singers' brows gradually unfurrowed, to be replaced, by the Act II finale, with smiles." (New York Times article "The City's Smallest Conservatory Finds Its Voice" by Anne Midgette) Read More...

"Joseph Colaneri led the orchestra in a polished and well-paced accompaniment (in Turandot)." (The New York Times) Joseph Colaneri Conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York's Central Park. Read More...

"Emily Golden delivered the wildly diverse role of Amneris with complete dedication. She electrified the stage, transforming from glamour to nobility to passion to sinister abandon with musicality, zeal, and grace. ...Now that's impressive." Bloomington (IN) Independent Emily Golden as Amneris and Angela Brown in the title role pictured in their first production of Aida at Indianapolis Opera. Read More...

"Casting was luxurious with the famous guests raising the level of the local talent. Joyce Castle, her mezzo atmospherically worn but strongly insinuating, made for a deceptively seedy almost grandmotherly Begbick as the boys were lured in and a toxic dictator as they met their various fates at the hands of her gang." (Kurt Weill Newsletter) Read More...

Maestro Joseph Colaneri (right) pictured with Samuel Ramey and Robert Swedburg following a performance of Mr. Ramey's 'Devils program.' Read More...

"The part of the protagonist is murderous for the expressive intensity it requires. The temperament and vocal techniques of Mezzo-soprano Emily Golden are formidable." (Corriere della Sera) Emily Golden in Salammbô, (Phillipe Fénelon, composer), Opéra National de Paris (Bastille) Read More...

"Castle's Augusta in Doe is superb...the Augusta of mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle is the definitive show-stopper of this production. Castle has every nuance of the role clasped in a fist of iron, and she knows how to command your sympathy for this character of missed opportunities. Vocally persuasive, emotionally compelling, this is a portrayal for the books - one in which every note and every gesture is so right that you want to salute her." The Seattle Times Joyce Castle as Augusta Tabor in Central City Opera's production of The Ballad of Baby Doe commemorating the 50th anniversary of the opera's premiere. Read More...

"Golden's Azucena seemed warm and maternal on the surface, but deeper passions bubbled below....Azucena accented lyrical phrases with piercing notes from her bottom register in Act Two's Stride La Vampa ..." (Indianapolis Star) Emily Golden as Amneris in Indianapolis Opera's Aida production. Read More...

"Joyce Castle's rich, pointed singing made Jezibaba a most formidable presence." Opera Joyce Castle as Jezibaba in Seattle Opera's production of Rusalka. Read More...