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“…Verena Rein who portrays the leading role Violetta is a brilliant event by herself. A delicate person with a strong voice who can also act everything she sings; namely grief, desperation, illness until death...”

(RBB Radio critique on “La traviata”)

“...Verena Rein as Violetta manages to find touching tones for her early love. She masters the challenging and complex part in a virtuoso manner and with great laryngeal exertion, which mirrors the fortune of a loving and suffering woman…”

(Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten on „La Traviata“)

“…The Soprano Verena Rein from Berlin impressed the audience by portraying the role of Konstanze with an astonishing power of interpretation and she was able to reach the highest tones without difficulty..."

(Westdeutsche Allgemeine on “The abduction from the Seraglio“)

“…Verena Rein as Agathe sang with her wonderful, ensouled voice and apparently managed to arrest the attention of the audience…”

“...the charming Verena Rein (Agathe) when she sang her heartfelt love arias which were full of poetry and great pianissimos. („Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle”, „Leise, leise fromme Weise”) ...”

(Märkische Allgemeine on „Der Freischütz“)

“…Verena Rein sang in six languages with the clearest diction…”

(Osnabrücker Zeitung on „German-Baltic recital“)

“…The Soprano Verena Rein who-thanks to her great voice- gave the audience a magnificent romantic evening. She used her brilliant voice very intensively. Sometimes her voice sounded languishing or passionate then joyful and jubilant. She gave the songs a lot of warmth...”

(Märkische Allgemeine on „German-Polish recital“)

“…It was a very fine piece of art how the Soprano, dressed in a sparkling Elizabethan dress, skipped from Purcell’s lively ornamentation to Strauss’ lyrical songs and then to Britten’s Midsummernight’s tirades which sound a tad mocking...”

(Die Welt on „English Mad Songs and Ayres“ at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival)

“…a series of songs from Purcell to Vaughan offered by a brilliant and full-sounding voice...”

(Kieler Nachrichten on „English Mad Songs and Ayres“)

Review on the CD release "La Note d'Or"
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Review on the CD release "Edwin Geist. Chamber Music and Songs"
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Review on "German-Baltic recital"
as part of the International Musik Summer "NordTöne"
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About the CD release RUSSIAN SONGS:

"Un programme magnifique, où la chanteuse Verena Rein, superbement accompagné par le pianiste Jascha Nemtsov, témoigne d’une sensibilité idéale dans cette sélection de mélodies russes rares dues à Chostakovitch, Lourié ou encore Zaderatski. Envoûtant !" (qobuz.com, Paris, April 2010)