PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, SANTA FE, 2008

"[...]The baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, well known to Metropolitan Opera audiences, owns the role of Count Almaviva. With his suave phrasing and burly power, he manages to make the lecherous Count seem at once comically effete and dangerously seductive.[...]"

Anthony Tomassini, Music Review
New York Times, August 4, 2008

"[...]Mariusz Kwiecien makes the Count a model of aristocratic menace. Satin-voiced, superb, a true stage animal, he's possibly the best Almaviva since Almaviva. In his great second half scena Kwiecien's cold fury, barely under control, voiced with elegance and overwhelming power, nearly bursts the seams of the role. [...]"

John Stege, "Fantastic Figaro"
Santa Fe Reporter, July 15, 2008