Jagde was a proper swashbuckling hero, with generous phrasing, an expansive chest voice, plenty of swagger and ping in his high notes."

Jagde’s tenor was powerful and dramatically convincing, exhibiting a heroic tone even in the love duet ..."

Above all, the versatile tenor Brian Jagde crowned a cast list of exquisite quality. He gave tirelessly in color and volume, textual security, and heroic splendor in a sovereign interpretation of the “Stranger.”

Jagde has clearly arrived as a world-class heroic tenor ... His “Nessun dorma” showed a huge breadth of space, moving seamlessly from an intimate whisper to a hall-filling embrace."

... a prodigious instrument, it has the potential for him to become one of the great modern tenors."