“Fun and unpretentious”
— The New Yorker
“Seemed to burst onto a sunlit field like a bird symphony at dawn.”
— The Washington Post
Three-Winged Wisdom on WNYC’s “New Sounds”
“Exquisite...breathtaking...Davis does an exceptional job creating a plot without conflict, something that rarely works. Here it does, and it seems to be the opera’s essential point: These two women find each other and love each other. That in itself is enough of a story.”
— Classical Voice North America
“Vibrant ardor.”
— The New York Times
What if We’re Beautiful featured on NPR’s “Performance Today”
“It grabs you. It holds you. It charms you. It stirs your soul. And it is the reason why one hopes this opera will get the full monty treatment, to fully launch this opera on one of the world’s grand opera houses, where it deserves to be heard.”
— Picture This Post
“Driven by a seemingly endless curiosity and the equally expansive energy to pursue it.”
— USA Today
“Ingenious”
— The Guardian
“A serious operatic exploration...tightly constructed.”
— Opera News
DTD interviewed in Opera Wire
“A work of extraordinary accomplishment….Stunningly beautiful. The audience was enraptured.”
— I Care if You Listen
“Daniel Thomas Davis’ The Impossible She, was a towering musical achievement, a hugely complex work packing a whopping political and intellectual punch...sublime and intricate... raw, heartbreaking emotion...positioning contemporary opera as an important tool for political and historical commentary, for magnifying marginalized voices, for sharing long-lost stories, and for finding solutions to a tumultuous present in a distant past.”
— Parterre
“Magnificent…entirely original style of orchestration.”
—- Lexington Herald-Leader
“Family Secrets: Kith and Kin is a completely satisfying experience and a major new work.”
— Fanfare
“A very distinct and imaginative composition…[that] explores issues of guilt and innocence, death and grief, fallibility and forgiveness… with each hearing its secrets and wonders opened more.”
— American Record Guide
“All three performances were sold out and, at the last one, it didn’t appear that an intermission did anything to thin the ranks of the enthusiastic crowd—a rarity for a new work based on challenging texts….SIX.TWENTY.OUTRAGEOUS is imaginative, thought-provoking, and generous of spirit.”
— Musical America
