Marcellina, Le Nozze di Figaro, Boston Lyric Opera

"Marcellina and Basilio were given finely etched characterization by Michelle Trainor and Matthew DiBattista, respectively, though they were both shorn of their arias."

“As Marcellina soprano Michelle Trainor also delivered a brilliant performance.  An ebullient comedian, she stole every scene she was in with her pure joie de vivre.  I will always remember her in her iridescent (green and mauve) gown doing an exuberant twist in the wedding party scene.  Trainor has a big voice, which she has learned to modulate for the space and her company.  An alumna of the BLO’s emerging artist program, I suspect she will have a big career.”

“Michelle Trainor as Marcellina has a gift for comic timing and her facial expressions provide another level of commentary at every turn.”

“Michelle Trainor made a delightful Marcellina, equally fine trading barbs with Susanna and embracing her long-lost son, Figaro.”

“Michelle Trainor sounded great…seemed to have real fun in the role of Marcellina.”

“…overshadowed by the comic genius and energy of Michelle Trainor’s stentorian Marcellina…you bring out a cast of singers so marvelous that one would be lucky to hear them do “Marriage of Figaro” anywhere they offered it.”