The Dallas Morning News - May 26, 2008
By Scott Cantrell
......Major companies struggle to cast both Turandot and the besotted Calaf. Both roles call for enormous vocal power, and it's usually bought at the price of rawness, if not downright ugliness.
But Carter Scott, a late replacement, is as thrilling a Turandot as you'll hear anywhere. At first, her soprano seems almost too luxuriously creamy. But when emotional and musical pitch rise the voice gathers an amazing intensity that blazes across the orchestra in full cry.
She's also the rare Turandot who actually looks as though she could lure men to their deaths. When her carefully constructed defenses crumple around her, we genuinely feel her pain.
