​"In the title role [of Jenufa], American soprano Laura Wilde was a revelation. Making her European debut, Wilde sang with a radiant, richly textured soprano and displayed considerable acting skills. She demonstrated a full tone and unwavering steadiness at the top -- important given that the score lingers in the higher registers.

This was a breathtakingly honest performance; Jenufa's openness was utterly credible and her growing maturity compelling. When she insisted that Laca forgive Steva, and when she herself absolved her own step-mother, she was neither superficial nor saintly -- just a real woman who has learned that it is suffering that brings moral understanding and certainty. In the closing scenes we may have sensed Jenufa's exhaustion -- as she tries to persuade Laca to leave her the fragile vocal line fragments -- but at the close she was calm and strong, her voice flushed with optimism. "

--Claire Seymour, Opera Today, English National Opera, Jenufa