Performance

Salome, by Gerald Barry.

US premiere at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Thomas Adès conducting. Irish premiere at New Music Dublin with National Symphony Orchestra, Jérôme Kuhn conducting.

"Soprano Alison Scherzer’s tour-de-force performance as Salome was a wonder of stamina, technique, and control. Even at the role’s most extreme, she dispatched the vocal demands of the part with confidence and striking clarity of line, taking what could have come off as chaos and making it sharply focused and relentlessly surging."
Charles Burns, San Francisco Voice

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Life with an Idiot, by Alfred Schnittke, Theater Magdeburg

"His wife, on the other hand—portrayed by Alison Scherzer as a being who is at first angelic and later diabolically otherworldly—enchants the audience with ethereal tones reaching stratospheric heights."
Werner Kopfmüller, Leipziger Zeitung

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Hagar, by Jan-Peter de Graaff, Nederlandse Reisopera

"Soprano Alison Scherzer was a beautifully detached Sarai who handled the coloraturas that de Graaff had written for her with ease."
Peter Franken, Place de l'opera

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Salome, by Gerald Barry, Theater Magdeburg

"The title character was in the best of hands with the American soprano Alison Scherzer: thanks to her supple, nuanced voice, she succeeded in lending Salome a certain human verisimilitude."
Jürgen Gahre, Opera 25

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Powder Her Face, by Thomas Adès, Nederlandse Reisopera

"Alison Scherzer – deliciously acute in all the right places – swinging from a giant pearl singing “Everything lovely, in aspic” like a kinky Eliza Doolittle [...] Scherzer is able to hit the Maid’s stratospheric register with a laser-like precision that would concern any stage-hand responsible for all those champagne glasses if it weren’t for her teasing lightness of touch."
Eleanor Knight, Bachtrack

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Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Gerald Barry, Theater Magdeburg, Grand Théâtre de Genève

"Not only in her childlike portrayal, but also in vocal acrobatics, the American soprano Alison Scherzer fabulously masters her mammoth task as Alice. The program states that she reaches the high C 98 times. One believes it immediately and is astonished."

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The Importance of Being Earnest, Nouvel Opéra Fribourg & Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

"...and the soprano Alison Scherzer negotiates the complex, stratospheric vocalises of Cecily with ease."
Michel Parouty, Opéra Magazine

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Powder Her Face, Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, & Fondazione Haydn Stiftung

"With the mien of a silent movie star and the voice of a mutant Queen of the Night, the coloratura soprano Alison Scherzer burns up the stage as a soubrette who, imagining herself in the place of her mistress, utters an exclamation - "Fancy!" - that more than one spectator will be ready to take up as his or her own on leaving the Athénée."
Pierre Gervasoni, le Monde

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Miscellaneous productions, Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau

The Producers, Mel Brooks, as Ulla
Powder Her Face, Thomas Adès, as Maid
Wiener Blut, Johann Strauß, as Franziska Cagliari
Frau Luna, Paul Lincke, as Stella/Ella