PRESS
reviews
Kris/voice of Sunny/guitarist in THIS IS NOT ABOUT NATALIE (Jason Cady) — Experiments in Opera (March, 2025)
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“Daniels has a powerful yet flexible voice. Although she wasn’t singing both Kris’ and Sunny’s parts live, she was in for an Olympian vocal workout for the entire 30-minute opera, constantly bombarded by a blaring synthesizer score, not to mention her own electric guitar, which she played live during her arias.”
-Classical Voice North America
“Sarah Daniels is entirely convincing as a riot grrrl in a diva’s voice.”
-The Wire
“…soprano Sarah Daniels made mince of Jason Cady’s fiendish rock-ish score…”
-All Ears
Ophelia in DROWNING OPHELIA (a play by Rachel Luann Strayer, featuring musical excerpts from Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet — Shakespeare Opera Theatre (April, 2025
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“Sarah Daniels is a stunning Ophelia with a staggeringly beautiful operatic vocal talent…Daniels perfectly acts the amalgam’s innocence and grace, changing her idiosyncrasies only just enough and remaining in the spirit of her symbol when she plays the ‘younger sister’.”
-DC Theater Arts
“[Sarah Daniels] was a delight as a constant source of irritation to Jane. Her vocalizations were appealing and stylized for the character. She has a beautiful singing voice, performed marvelously singing a cappella, creating for me my first tinge of regret this was not opera.”
-Opera Gene
Chunky in CHUNKY IN HEAT (Cady, Mathhusen, Rogers, Siegel, Washington, Welch) — Experiments in Opera (June, 2019)
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“Everything about this production is so uniformly superb it’s hard to single out an individual for praise. But Sarah Daniels was so suited to Chunky it’s almost impossible to imagine her in any other role. Her crisp musical theatre soprano and spot-on body language (fleet, yet gawky) were so convincing that at times the piece felt more like reality television than an opera.”
-Observer
“Sarah Daniels is superb as Chunky…”
-ConcertoNet.com
“The entire cast was totally up to speed, with Sarah Daniels (in the title role) in particular ably coping with whatever the different composers handed her.”
-ArtsJournal.com
“Sarah Daniels is captivating as Cheryl (Chunky), using her pliant soprano to excellent effect as she ranges from shy to triumphant to distraught to afraid.”
-San Francisco Classical Voice
“In the title role, soprano Sarah Daniels was extraordinary, capturing Chunky’s awkwardness and practicality with pinpoint musicianship and an easy, youthful soprano.”
-Opera News
“Soprano Sarah Daniels was fearless in bringing to life this brave, wonderful girl, who came of age sitting by the edge of a pool…Hope was written all over Daniels’ face as she dreamed of Minneapolis - from where she is summoned home to find both her parents on life support - with her compassion intact.”
-Seen and Heard International
Rooster in THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN (Janáček) — dell’Arte Opera Ensemble (August, 2017)
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“Soprano Sarah Daniels brought beaming tone and enviable swagger as the Rooster…”
-New York Classical Review