Caroline Shaw: Is a Rose / Platoon 2023
“Ella Taylor’s gorgeous voice reaches new heights in the bonus track, from Season Two of The White Lotus.”
BBC Music Magazine (5*)
Tebaldo: Don Carlo / The Royal Opera 2023
“Spritely Ella Taylor (Tebaldo) flits protectively around Elizabeth, their tone positively birdlike.”
London Unattached
“Ella Taylor, debuting at The Royal Opera, was a bright Tebaldo…”
Opera
“…there is excellent support from Ella Taylor as Tebaldo.”
Opera Online
“As Tebaldo, Elizabeth’s Page, Ella Taylor made a strong impression…”
Seen and Heard International
Belinda / Second Witch: Dido and Aeneas / Ustinov Studio of Theatre Royal Bath
“In a uniformly strong cast, pride of place goes to the Belinda of Ella Taylor, a clarion soprano…”
Bath Echo
“Blessed with a strong, distinctive voice, the all-out star of the evening is soprano Ella Taylor…”
Broadway World
“The vivid-toned soprano Ella Taylor as Belinda / Witch had arresting stage presence and sang with intensity as they, by turn, supported and confronted the bewildered Dido.”
Opera
“Ella Taylor shines in the contrasts of the dual Belinda / Second Witch role: confidante one moment, spitting horrors the next.”
The Telegraph
“Best of all was Ella Taylor’s Belinda, whose soprano voice glints and gleams, and who makes us feel, acutely, their despair at Dido’s death.”
The Times
“…an outstanding performance from soprano Ella Taylor as Belinda…”
Wiltshire Times
Fiordiligi: Così fan tutte / Wild Arts
“Outstanding in a strong cast was the rising star soprano Ella Taylor as redoubtable Fiordiligi, a voice of tempered steel, wrapped in a warm velvet cloak.”
The Observer
Gerda: The Paradis Files / Graeae 2022
“…Ella Taylor in the role of Gerda was a warm and sustaining presence.”
Opera
“…a witty Ella Taylor…”
The Stage
Alicia Jane Turner: Tell me when you get home / London Sinfonietta 2022
“The sung lines, spoken passages and abstract vocalising were delivered with straightforward directness, reaching an almost overwhelming intensity towards the end of the piece…”
Evening Standard
The Cock / Innkeeper’s Wife: The Cunning Little Vixen / CBSO Tour 2021
“Ella Taylor gives their all as The Cock and The Innkeeper’s Wife with their strong, clear soprano.”
Olyrix
“Ella Taylor’s precision is incontestable.”
Opera Online
Paris: Paride ed Elena / Bampton Classical Opera 2021
“Taylor proved more than equal to the demands of style and technique, singing with a beautifully even tone – strong and smooth across the registers, and with a shining glow at the top – fully expressive of Paris’ passion.”
Opera
“Ella Taylor made a bold and determined Paris, their firm voice charting a lithe and lively line.”
Opera Now (5 stars)
“Ella Taylor proved near ideal as Paris, they brought a bright flexibility to the vocal line and allowed a sense of tragic intensity to gradually build. Their solo which concluded Act Two was terrific, and it was simply part of a whole, we never doubted Paris’ seriousness or passion.”
Planet Hugill
“…their voice is bright, again notably clear in diction and responsive to nuance.”
Seen and Heard International
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2020 / Henry Wood Hall, London / Opera Today
“Taylor confirmed an impressive interpretative range in Fiordiligi’s ‘Teremari! … Come scoglio’ from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Both outer indignance and inner feeling were apparent in the compelling recitative, and it’s rare to hear the extreme vocal leaps as cleanly delivered as this, even from the most established singers. Taylor has a hearty lower register and a glowing top; in between the tone is even and controlled. Ornaments and trills were spot on, and the coloratura runs left one in no doubt of the soprano’s stamina and precision. The tone was never compromised by the virtuosity and they remained musically unruffled throughout.”
The Creation / Sheffield Bach Choir
“Of the vocal soloists, outstanding was the soprano Ella Taylor…an enviable maturity of voice and musicianship.”
The Church Times
Momentum: Our Future, Now Recital with Roderick Williams
“Taylor had a beautifully rounded tone and some irresistible vibrato…”
The Argus
“Ella Taylor’s bright soprano convincingly conveyed the sensuously apprehensive ecstasy in ‘Ganymed’ and the naïve indignation of ‘Die Forelle…”
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