“Soprano Verity Wingate portrays a possessed, vulnerable Luisa. With penetrating high notes that cut to the bone, she demands that her cut-off body parts be incorporated into the painting.”

“Unsurpassed star of the evening is the soprano Verity Wingate, who performs on stage from start to finish and seemingly effortlessly puts her vocal part into the spotlight. She switches smoothly from the highest to the lowest registers without missing a single note. Her dynamics are breathtaking: even in the very highest regions, she still dares to decrescendo, while her voice remains flawless and audible.
It is moving when she realises that she has always lived a lie: art is not the truth, it is only art. Her barely audible, fading sighs ‘it is art, art, art, art...’ goes through the bone. While Luisa Casati may realise that there is no such thing as a living work of art, her interpreter Wingate, comes pretty close.”

“Verity Wingate is a vocally and theatrically breathtaking Luisa.”

“The peerless soprano Verity Wingate portrays Casati as a possessed ‘musa futura’, but at the same time shows her poignant loneliness.”

“There was sturdy support in smaller roles from Emanuele Cordaro as the High Priest... of Baal, Lucas van Lierop as Abdallo and a stand-out Verity Wingate as Anna.”