Reviews

 

Ms. Vargas’s ear grasped the music’s difficulties, her voice its boundaries and her heart its dark emotions.      
                        Bernard Holland, The New York Time

 

Vargas has a mezzo-soprano voice of strikingly individual and attractive grain…she draws interpretive strength from sources that lie deep within her, and she has the gift to be simple.
                        Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe

 

A lustrous, exciting mezzo.
                        Andrew  Porter, The New Yorker

 

Vargas captured the wistful feeling of remembrance and reverie, the graceful phrase arcs and large dynamic profile. Vargas’ voice is finely focused and pliant, finding the intimate connection with Le Secret and the sense of a suspended moment in his masterpiece, En Sourdine. Beautifully sung.
                        Robert Commanday,
                        San Franciso Classical Voice

 

Her commanding grasp of the content and (Phil) West’s sensitive playing of the parts written for him made their perfromance the evening’s moving and meanigful high point.

Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine

 

The charismatic mezzo had plenty of opportunities to let her warmly expressive personality and vocal gifts shine… Vargas expertly used her warm mezzo-timbre to draw us fully and unerringly into Mahler’s world.
                        Lawrence Johnson,  Chicago Tribune

 

But it was Vargas’ show.  With a hands on hips irreverence and a Brooklyn-bred accent, she mugged, winked, vamped, whispered and mimicked her way through the piece without descending to stereotype.  She tackled her big aria in grand voice and went back and forth between singing and speaking with seeming ease.             

                        David Stabler, The Oregonian

 

Ravel’s exotic Chansons Madecasses, interpreted with subtlety, erotic magnetism, ferocity and idyllic calm by mezzo-soprano Milagro Vargas.

 

            Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post

 

Milagro means “miracle” and Vargas’ artistry gives full meaning to the word; indeed, her voice is perhaps the most beautiful heard in seventeen summers at the Colorado Music Festival.                 
            Wes Blomster,  The  Daily Camera

 

Milagro Vargas, eine temperamentvolle, sinnliche Dorabella mit ausgeglichenem, blühendem Ton.

Theater der Zeit

 

The remarkable mezzo Milagro Vargas….

Opera News

 

Milagro Vargas, eine exotische Bäckerstochter Nancy mit strahlender Stimme

Dieter Schnabel, Stuttgarter Wochenblatt

 

One remembers especially Milagro Vargas’s splendid singing of Hindemith’s small masterpiece Die Junge Magd.

Bernard Holland , New York Times

 

Milagro Vargas, eine Stilistin des Mozart-gesangs mit herber Attitüde und nuancierten Dialog, als überzeugender Ritter Ramiro.

Kurt Osterwald, Die Rheinpfalz

 

Ravel’s moody Schéhérazade, its opulence fully projected by Milagro Vargas’ magnificent mezzo-soprano.

Charles Shere, The Oakland Tribune