“Rosalind was sung by Jessie Raven, whose voluptuous stage presence and lush mezzo show her to be a star in the making”.

“Jessie Raven's Rosalind and Caroline Worra, as Jenny, provide the production's high-wire vocal fireworks, as well as its sharpest emotional edges”.

“It is the voices, particularly the creamy rich mezzo-soprano of Jessie Raven as Rosalind, that give the emotional edge to this opera”.

“As the daring but fragile Rosalind, the mezzo Jessie Raven was dynamic. Her performance was effectively balanced between confidence and fear – reflected vocally by passages of flamboyance, followed by others of hesitance – and showed Rosalind to be as much a victim as a perpetrator”.

“Jessie Raven’s ample mezzo sounded secure and handsome in the role of Rosalind”.