Christmas Oratorio / English Baroque Soloists 2022
“…outstanding especially…the interchanges of Hilary Cronin, one of the meatier sopranos in Gardiner’s ensemble, with oboist Michael Niesemann and their echo doubles in Part Four…”
The Arts Desk
Messiah / The Sixteen 2022
“Hilary Cronin, whose lovely ample voice could have dominated a nave three times the length of this one…highly skilled, notably agile in melismatic passages.”
Bachtrack
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Messiah / Welsh National Opera 2022
“Soprano Harriet Eyley glistened throughout, her voice clear and precise and her presence both humble and all-encompassing whenever she performed.”
Buzz
Poppea: Agrippina / English Touring Opera 2022
“Hilary Cronin’s Poppea was a schemer, with a serious core to her performance, giving us a woman well aware of her sexual power, plus some sparkling singing.”
Opera
Purcell & Blow / The English Concert 2022
“The sound was always refined, gilded by Hilary Cronin’s soprano.”
The Times
Telaïre: Castor et Pollux / The Rameau Project
“Hilary Cronin sang Telaïre with a rich palette of tone and nuance.”
Opera
St John Passion / VOCES8 2022
“But it was in the arias that things really took flight. Hilary Cronin’s golden-toned “Ich folge dir gleichfalls” danced around a pair of flutes…”
The Arts Desk
Music for Holy Week / London Handel Festival 2022
“Hilary Cronin sang the whole motet with a glorious sense of technical security allied to fine style, she projected strong direct tones, and moved easily between the brilliant trumpet and the more intimate.”
Opera Today
Telemann: Die Donnerode / Magdeburger Telemann Festtage 2022
“Hilary Cronin’s gloriously golden-toned soprano was a sublime, ethereal delight…”
Bachtrack
Ode an Purcell / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra 2022
“Hilary Cronin sang with luminously clear purity…”
Bachtrack
London Handel International Singing Competition 2021 / St George’s Hanover Square
“Particular congratulations to this year’s winner Hilary Cronin whose expression and communication captured the true spirit of Handel.”
Laurence Cummings
Mother: Hansel and Gretel / Silent Opera at Opera Holland Park
“…generously warm-toned…”
Opera
Poulenc: Salve Regina / York Early Music Christmas Festival
“Hilary Cronin was luminously clear in the high soprano part of Poulenc’s Salve Regina.”
The Press
Mrs Waters: The Boatswain’s Mate / Grimeborn Festival
“Hilary Cronin as the landlady, Mrs Waters, seizes the opportunity of her two memorable set-pieces…”
Evening Standard
“Hilary Cronin presents a suitably feisty and authoritative Mrs Waters, the landlady of the pub in which the action takes place. Her beautifully performed ‘What If I Were Young Again’ proves to be one of the show’s most poignant highlights, matched only by her final aria at its climax.”
Musical Theatre Review
“…her creamy, fluting soprano took flight in the lyrical episodes.”
Opera
“Hilary Cronin made a delightful Mrs Waters…Cronin managed to bring a nice mix of solid strength to the role, with some charming girlish touches when Mrs Waters realises she has caught Ned Travers’ eye. Cronin has a lovely bright, flexible voice which I suspect will grow. Here she coped ably with the tessitura and was touching in Mrs Waters’ big solo scene…”
Planet Hugill
