VERDI - IL TROVATORE - CHELSEA OPERA GROUP
THE SUNDAY TIMES - Hugh Canning
"The Leonora of the South African soprano Sally Silver was my pick: she tackles Verdi’s runs, trills and turns with astounding delicacy and sings in long phrases with dramatic involvement."
OPERA MAGAZINE - Yehuda Shapiro
"Sally Silver was unfailingly stylish and communicative."
STRAUSS - VIER LETZTE LIEDER - KWA-ZULU NATAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ARTSMART - Michael Green
" Sally Silver has a pure and powerful voice, particularly in the upper register, and she sang with emotion and commitment."
GOUNOD - MIREILLE - NEW SUSSEX OPERA
THE TELEGRAPH - Rupert Christiansen
"But what lifted the evening to another plane and earns it a fourth star was the remarkable performance by South African soprano Sally Silver in the title role. With effortlessly pure tuning, bright and fluently produced tone, a full and easy top register, warmly musical phrasing and clean enunciation of the text, she offered first-class singing by any standards."
OPERA
"The role that had overstretched the first Mireille, Marie Miolan-Carvalho, held no terrors for the South African soprano Sally Silver, her joyous insouciant solos in the early scenes capped by secure top notes, and the words of Hugh Macdonald's English translation keenly projected."
OFFENBACH - LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN - NATIONALE REISOPERA
OPERA - Michael Davidson
"Sally Silver portrayed all three of the doomed (anti-)heroines with dazzling virtuosity and compelling acting. As Olympia she was not only chilling, but very funny. As Antonia she became a convincing invalid, the duet with her mother's voice quite hair-raising. Her Giulietta oozed decadence and anxiety."
TROUW
"Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta were sung – as they should be – by one soprano: the outstanding Sally Silver."
NRC-HANDELSBLAD - Kaspar Jansen
"The roles of Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta are performed fantastically by Sally Silver, an archetypal soprano whose voice radiantly soars above everything else."
BELLINI - I PURITANI -SCOTTISH OPERA
THE SCOTSMAN
"It was soprano Sally Silver, returning to Scottish Opera following her acclaimed performance in Lucia di Lammermoor, who stole the show with an effortless portrayal of the love-struck Elvira."
OPERA - Andrew Clark
"Sally Silver sang Elvira with polish and dramatic conviction that one associates with better known names. She impressed with her sense of line in the Act 1 finale, offered a fabulous technical display in Vien, diletto' and proved well able to carry the melodrama in a concert setting."
THE HERALD
Yesterday afternoon’s thrilling performance by Scottish Opera of Bellini’s opera I Puritani, with extraordinary singing by soprano Sally Silver in the role of Elvira, was more than a musical triumph for the company: it was a vital moment for Scottish Opera.
THE TIMES
"Scottish Opera prevails, with a cast, led by a fine Sally Silver as the frail heroine Elvira."
DONIZETTI - MARIA STUARDA -CHELSEA OPERA GROUP
PLANET HUGILL - Robert Hugill
"Sally Silver, gave a beautifully sung account of the role. Her Elisabetta was spirited, sexy and dramatic in the famous meeting between the queens which closes Act 1."
DONIZETTI - WILD MAN OF THE WEST INDIES - ENGLISH TOURING OPERA
THE EVENING STANDARD - Nick Kimberly
“The vocal star is Sally Silver: as the repentant wife, she shows real bel canto style.”
THE TELEGRAPH - Rupert Christiansen
“ Sally Silver lives up to her surname with some lustrous and scintillating singing as his repentant wife.”
LIMELIGHT - Howard Shepherdson
“Musically the opera is more recognisably from the Donizetti stable with a challenging soprano role superbly sung by South African singer Sally Silver"
MASSENET - IVRE D'MOUR - GUILD
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE - Erin Heisel
"Once in a while a recording comes along that makes you wonder why certain repertoire is almost totally ignored. This is that recording for Massenet.....Silver indeed has a silvery voice, as well as excellent diction and intelligent use of portamento. She makes each piece into a little gem; her interpretations are full of color and clarity. "
WEBER - OBERON - NEW SUSSEX OPERA
OPERA
"Sally Silver's rich soprano endowed Reiza' singing with authority, and she delivered the taxing " Ocean! Thou mighty monster" impressively and without flagging"
THE TELEGRAPH - Rupert Christiansen
Sally Silver gives a show-stopping accountof Reiza’s “Ocean! Thou mighty monster”
OPERA NOW - Robert Thicknesse
Sally Silver’s Reiza nailed “Ocean! Thou mighty monster” with a performance of total commitment and passion”
PLANETHUGILL - Robert Hugill
"Sally Silver was in fine voice as Reiza combining vocal virtuosity with the flashes of jugend-dramatisch needed."
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - SCOTTISH OPERA
THE TIMES - Hilry Finch
"The strength of Sally Silver is in her stillness – everything is focused within her magnificently variegated and tireless soprano."
THE GUARDIAN
"here is, however, some excellent singing, particularly from South African soprano Sally Silver as Lucia. "