—Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News
"An absolute scream"
"...agreeable Nurse Gertrude... her contralto voice lovely to hear"
"...Excellent comic support..."
" ...amusingly overripe ...the most engaging people in the opera"
"In excellent form"
“Thomas Potter and Cindy Sadler were in excellent form in the character roles of the kindly family physician and the Old Baroness, Vanessa’s disapproving mother.”
"Superbly bitchy"
“...members of the James M. Collier apprentice program fielded an effective cadre of Elders and Biddies, led by Sadler’s superbly bitchy Mrs. McLean...”
"Strongly intoned"
“Cindy Sadler’s Erda was strongly intoned.”
"Knocked 'em dead"
“Cindy Sadler knocked ‘em dead with Erda’s last-minute, nearly deus-ex-machina appearance.”