Reviews:
“Katie Bray's Béatrice is sparkily acted and warmly sung.”
Béatrice et Bénédict, November 2011 – Richard Morrison, The Times.
“Vocally, Katie Bray as Béatrice was as idiomatically French-sounding, with her agile, full mezzo shaping the drooping phrases of her Act Two aria with great elegance, and she managed Béatrice’s love-struck transformation very affectingly.”
Béatrice et Bénédict, November 2011 – Peter Reed, Classical Source.
“Katie Bray charmed her audience from the outset, with her consummate acting skills and her lovely rich mezzo voice, full of youthful passion.
Ably and sympathetically accompanied by William Vann, she sang superbly throughout. Particularly memorable were her renditions of Britten's settings of four moving W.H. Auden poems, the glorious tango rhythm of Weill's Youkali and a beautiful performance of Edith Piaf's classic La vie en rose.”
Cabaret Recital, Cossington, September 2011
“Vocally, the undisputed star was Katie Bray as Polly. Bray gave us a wonderful feel for Weill's melodic lines and for every mood, whether lyrical in her Farewell Song, waywardly self-willed in the Song of Yes and No or rapid-fire in her Jealousy duet with Runette Botha's Lucy.”
Die Dreigroschenoper, May 2011
“Wu is sung with the luxurious mezzo-soprano of Katie Bray, a sound of compassion, plangeant but not abject or begging. This is the most convincingly operatic performance, Bray characterising Wu with the quality of the sound. Consequently it's, for me, the most gripping account of a maligned individual of the evening.”
Kommilitonen!, March 2011
“Katie Bray was a suitably flibbertigibbet Dorabella”
Cosi fan tutte, November 2011 - David Karlin
"Bray as Dorabella is the sillier of the two: flighty, excitable and attracted, magpie-like, to pretty jewels. We know she will be the first to fall, and so it proves. The scene in which she is seduced is beautifully sung and simply staged: Charles Rice’s rich baritone and Bray’s full-toned mezzo-soprano communicate the complex emotions of the two characters and create one of the most memorable scenes of the evening."
Cosi fan tutte, November 2011 - Lizzie Davis