"The international cast featured a real find of a Lady Macbeth in the French singer Sylvie Valayre. ... the ideal voice for the role: 
a dramatic soprano with an incisive edge and the dark-tinged richness of a mezzo."
Matthew Rye, The Daily Telegraph

"Even if the cast had been average, this would still have been a night to remember, but Glyndebourne had assembled a nine-carat one within which Sylvie Valayre's Lady Macbeth took pride of place. 
It's an almost impossible role to cast these days – not only must the soprano have a thrilling top, but a cavernous lower register as well. Many 'celebrity' sopranos have come a cropper in this role, but Valayre positively revelled in all the pitfalls that Verdi's writing threw at her. She was nothing short of sensational, and I couldn't help wondering why she is so underused in this country. 
She would be a glorious Turandot – come on Royal Opera!"
Keith McDonnell, musicOMH.com

"... excellent... scrupulously accurate: the notes encompass such an extraordinary range. ... the impossible piano high D at the end of the sleepwalking aria was perfectly sung. Her coloratura was accurate... 
interaction and non-interaction with Macbeth was compelling."  
Alexander Campbell, Classicalsource

"... beaming ... a compelling piece of somnambulism." 
Rick Jones, The Tablet

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