Martha Jones
Mezzo Soprano
“[Martha Jones’s] warm, sinuous mezzo is alone worth the price of a ticket.” (Classical Source)
“Martha Jones.... lights the show with the lunar beauty of her mezzo.” (The Times)
Autumn 2022:
Martha Jones was a delight as the infectious and titular cat. She consistently held the ear and eye with a magnetism that easily charmed. (David Truslove, Opera Today)
Martha Jones' Cat is the mainstay here: suitably feline with a touch of know-all swagger, never overdoing the plumed sombrero and thigh-boots flamboyance. Her flexible mezzo uses a range of colours to most telling effect; moments of quasi-purring or mewing, never histrionic, are mimicked by the violin in Lyness’s neat reduction of the score, in which the glockenspiel adds shimmer. (Rian Evans, The Guardian)