ACCLAIMS
"In de Falla's Spanish ballet El Amor Brujo (Love Bewitched), contralto Jennifer Hines was the bewitcher, an opera singer with the slinky style of a chanteuse. Her flamenco flair made a striking impression." - John Fleming, St. Petersburg Times (10/13/09)
"Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines was a powerfully expressive soloist in the lament, ‘The Field of the Dead,' especially when she reached way down into her low register." - Mike Greenberg, Incident Light (05/09/09) Related Link
"New York mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines delivered a moving and devastatingly beautiful lament as she mourned the battlefield dead in the Prokofiev cantata." [S.A. Symphony and Mastersingers]- David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News
"Contralto Jennifer Hines blew us away. Her voice was a rainbow. It was absolutely unforgettable and hypnotic. Her musicality brought lines to life again and again. Everyone seemed to be talking about her in the hallways after the performance."[Verdi's Requiem, Hartford Symphony] - Jeffrey Johnson, Hartford Courant (April '09)
"As Marilyn Klinghoffer, mezzo Jennifer Hines provided ever-unfolding layers of characterization with a distinctive, multi-timbral vocal coloring and dramatic strength. The opera ends with Marilyn's lament for her dead husband: she berates the Captain, herself and the entire world in equal measure. Sinking to her knees in grief, Hines was spellbinding." [The Death of Klinghoffer - Julliard School] - Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News (01/31/09)
"And seeing these real-life, hard-bitten characters portrayed by singers so full of talent and promise brought a humanizing poignancy to the drama ... the earthy mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines as Marilyn Klinghoffer, afflicted with cancer yet tirelessly devoted to caring for her husband." [The Death of Klinghoffer - Julliard School] — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times (02/01/09)
"Jennifer Hines, a mezzo-soprano, portrayed a gutsy and seductive Maddalena." - [RIGOLETTO - Palm Beach Opera] - R. Spencer Butler, Palm Beach Daily News (12/14/08)
"But the surprise of the evening was mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines, who has a voice that has to be heard to be believed. Few mezzos display such a timbre. If you closed your eyes, you would swear that her lines were being delivered by a true countertenor. It was remarkable. Not to demean the other singers in any way, but it is worth the price of admission just to hear her." [Verdi's Requiem, Richmond Symphony] - Walt Amacker, Richmond Times Dispatch (03/16/08)
"The dark, rich, buttery tones of mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines were an unending astonishment." - Mark J. Estren, Washington Post (12/10/07)
"Singing with similar authority mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines, a late substitution who offered a memorable performance. She took a part that's often sung by a male countertenor and lent it dusky depth. The most mournful of arias fell to Hines, and she suffused each with palpable sadness." - Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press (12/13/07)
"Backed by the heavenly choir, mezzo Jennifer Hines made the ending 'Agnus Dei' special, her dusky, contralto-like voice wrapped around phrases like an Earth Mother's embrace." [Rossini's PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE - Michael O'Neal Singers]
— Pierre Ruhe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Jennifer Hines - pint-sized and stunning with a rich, powerhouse contralto - is the find of the season." [DAS RHEINGOLD - Washington National Opera]
— Washington City Paper
"Among the fine team of vocal soloists, it was mezzo Jennifer Hines who made the most distinctive impression to provide singing of contralto-like richness and punch." [MISSA SOLEMNIS - National Philharmonic] - Joe Banno, Washington Post
"Jennifer Hines has a noble and expressive dark alto voice." [ST. LUKE'S PASSION - Washington Bach Consort] — Tim Page, Washington Post
"Mezzo soprano, Jennifer Hines, who played the servant Suzuki, was a good actor and a genuine find as a singer. She's practically a contralto, with a voice of such heft and depth, it's almost unbelievable that it came from such a tiny frame. Yet seeing was believing." [MADAMA BUTTERFLY - Opera Grand Rapids] — Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk, Grand Rapids Press
"Hines is new this season, revealing a voice of striking depth and beauty." [DAS RHEINGOLD - Seattle Opera] — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Jennifer Hines was excellent as Suzuki, employing her deep and clear mezzo for lump-in-the-throat poignancy." [MADAMA BUTTERFLY - New York City Opera] — New York Sun
"Jennifer Hines's Suzuki was touching in her attentiveness to Cio-Cio San, and her chanting of Japanese prayers had satisfying weight." [MADAMA BUTTERFLY - Opera Tampa] — Opera News
"Jennifer Hines,Olga, has a voice so rich and colored that she easily steals any scene in which she appears." — Timeoff
"Jennifer Hines as Olga made one wish her part were longer, for her rich alto voice left one wanting more." — Paul Somers, New Jersey Classical Society Journal
"The other world class performance was Jennifer Hines' attractive Olga, sung with rich, personal sound down to her aria's closing depths and perfectly balanced between innocence and coquetry." — David Shengold, Classicstoday.com
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Hines uspstaged the soprano in the title role. Hines’earthy, dark Suzuki was immediately gripping. — New Jersey Star-Ledger, Frederick Kaiman