“Nico Muhly’s ‘Winter-Time,’ a Robert Louis Stevenson setting commissioned for school-age chorus, conjures the chill of mystery and adventure I used to feel before embarking on twilit “arctic expeditions” in our snowy backyard. Allen’s hushed, campfire-tale delivery of the incantatory melody is supported by baritone Levi Hernandez, whose endlessly droning D paints a desolate tundra landscape.”
- Opera News
"Bess’s aria from Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves…shows Allen at her best. Her tintinnabulating vibrato blends marvelously with husband Christopher’s twinkling trills, one of many passages in this project that attest to the couple’s mutual attunement.”
- Opera News
“Zoe Allen made a strong vocal and dramatic impression in “Owl Song” by Andy Vores, lashing into the repeated, frustrated fricatives of poet Margaret Atwood’s murdered girl. Pianist Kayo Iwama was positively fierce, and Allen matched her in intensity and outrage.”
- Opera News
“As Michelle… Zoe Allen plays a wide range of emotions, from fragile and victimized to seemingly ruthless.
- Localtheatreny.com
“It is a constant toss- up as each of the three superb actors, Shabazz Green (Wade), Robert Newman (Newell), and Zoe Allen (Michelle) vie for our affections. So riveting is the cast you are pulled to one side or the other, in an ever-changing scenario.”
- Brooklyn Theatre Observer
