Critical Acclaim

  • Metropolitan Opera – Faust

    “Mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell, in the brief role of old lady Marthe, is a jewel.”

    Willa Conrad, New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 25, 2005
  • “Jane Bunnell made much of the raunchy duties of Dame Marthe.”

    -Martin Bernheimer, Financial Times, April 27, 2005
  • Boston Symphony – Der Fliegender Holländer

    “Mezzo Jane Bunnell contributed a bustling cameo as the busybody nurse Mary.”

    -Boston Globe, March 2005
  • Central City Opera – Les Contes D’hoffmann

    “Rich-voiced Jane Bunnell was luxury casting for Antonia’s mother.  Clearly relishing playing a bad girl for once, she doubled as a feather-covered, truly corrupt Giulietta.”

    -David Shengold, Opera News, October 2004
  • Metropolitan Opera – Sly

    “Jane Bunnell as the tavern hostess and John Fanning as the actor John Plake, are very strong”

    -The New York Times, April 2002
  • Metropolitan Opera – Madama Butterfly

    “Jane Bunnell was a solid Suzuki”

    -The New York Times, November 2001
  • “The mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell was a vocally strong and sympathetic Suzuki.”

    -The New York Times, January 2000
  • “Kim Josephson (Sharpless) and Jane Bunnell (Suzuki) offered exemplary supporting performances.”

    -lgny.com, 2001
  • Metropolitan Opera - Otello

    “the mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell was an appropriately intimidated Emilia.”

    -The New York Times, October 1999
  • Berkshire Choral Festival – Verdi Requiem

    “Mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell was superb, especially her Recordare duet with soprano Alexandra Deshorties, oearly on  and her performance of Lux aeterna with tenor Jonathan Welcch and bass-baritone Dean Peterson.”

    -Springfield Journal, August 2001
  • “Perfectly balancing the soprano with warmth and mellow sounds, mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell exuded dulcet lines and sweeping upsurges with ‘Liber scriptus’”

    -The Berkshire Eagle, August 2001