Mercury News: Schwalbe artists among the best of 2018

“… Luca Francesconi’s opera…featured bravura performances by Heather Buck and Hadleigh Adams and was the thrilling highlight of the company’s summer season…

German-Canadian tenor Schade… gave a lustrous performance featuring Romantic works made famous in the 1920s by Irish tenor John McCormack and violinist Fritz Kreisler…

…an outstanding team of vocal soloists – soprano Camille Ortiz, mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle, tenor James Reese and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, music director Nicholas McGegan led the Bay Area’s premier early music ensemble in Mozart, works including the composer’s grand “Coronation Mass” and the happy-making ‘Exultate jubilate…”