Hagar, Hagar's Lament/Clemency, Boston Lyric Opera

“As it stands….Michelle Trainor’s beautiful singing of the Lament — and you could hardly ask for a finer sense of diction, quality of tone, or purer intonation than she delivers.”  

“Soprano Michelle Trainor as Hagar is joined by the piano of Brett Hodgdon in this most appropriate of Schubert songs, with Trainor in fine voice, full of passion and emotion, with beautifully clear diction and moving from fierce emotion to a sudden lighter Schubertian vein with consummate ease.”

“And soprano Michelle Trainor, who gave a delightful comic performance last season in John

Musto's Inspector, proved herself equally adept at drama as Hagar in Schubert's Lament.”

“Soprano Michelle Trainor’s performance was spell-binding and intense, and she negotiated

some rather awkward writing for voice with confidence.”

“Michelle Trainor (soprano) was heartbreaking as Hagar.”

"Hagar’s Lament" was staged, and featured Michelle Trainor as soloist. The dramatic soprano

has an impressively scaled voice…She intoned the long lines of dramatic recitative with style

and nobility.”