Reviews
Soloist in "Opera Shorts at Carnegie Hall," Remarkable Theater Brigade
McLeer’s Sonata was first on the program... Most appealing about this piece was the sweet performance of soprano Danya Katok in her characterization of a typical operatic heroine.
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Tom Cipullo’s The Husbands
was an unprecedented serious short that reminded me very strongly of
Sondheim’s most cerebral works. Very effective performances by Danya Katok and baritone Chris Pedro Trakas as the narrators of a story (based on William Carpenter’s Rain) depicting widows being reunited with their long-lost husbands only to lose them again.
-Chris McGovern, Sequenza21.com
Max in Where the Wild Things Opera, New York City Opera
Though billed as a concert, this was really a quasi-production
imaginatively staged by the choreographer Seán Curran and starring an
appealing young soprano, Danya Katok, as the rambunctious young Max.
-Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
Max in Where the Wild Things Are, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music
“Danya Katok put her nimble, focused soprano to
superb use in her portrayal of Max, the surly child who, when sent to
bed without dinner, imagines his adventures among the Wild Things.”
-Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
“Singers were superbly prepared: Baritone Shea Owens, the
passionate, doomed swineherd (whose song wins the queen’s love and gets
him beheaded) in “Full Moon,” and soprano Danya Katok, bad boy Max in
“Wild Things,” should run immediately to the Metropolitan Opera’s
Lindemann Young Artist Program.”
-Leslie Kandell, MusicalAmerica.com
“The technically difficult part of the impish boy Max, with its
high leaps exactly pinpointing notes at or near the top of her range,
was sung by the diminutive soprano Danya Katok, dressed in red pants,
and a baseball T-shirt and cap — bill down the back of her neck, of
course. Her diction was superb, probably aided by the fact that she was
also acting as well as singing the part.”
-Mary Wallace Davidson, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
“…in Knussen’s lush, spellbinding version of Maurice Sendak’s
‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ Max (soprano Danya Katok, precisely
mischievous) wins over the Things by howling the louder.”
-Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe
“Clearly, the standout performance was the versatile soprano
Danya Katok’s as the baseball-cap-wearing Max, the kid who acts up, is
sent to bed and dreams of Wild Things in the forest.”
-Andrew L. Pincus, The Berkshire Eagle
Featured Soloist, "An Evening of Cole Porter," Boston POPS
“Matthew Anderson and Danya Katok were the ingénues in this show,
and they just about stole it… And keep an eye on Katok. While this was a
lightly staged revue, Katok fully inhabited her character on every
song, from her ‘It’s De-Lovely’ duet with Anderson to her
spring-water-pure performance of ‘Use Your Imagination.’”
-Joel Brown, The Boston Globe
“Katok sings with a crystalline soprano and makes it sound effortless in ‘Do I Love You’ and ‘Use Your Imagination.’”
-Nancy Grossman, BroadwayWorld.com
Soprano Soloist, Knussen’s Requiem: Songs for Sue, Tanglewood Music Center
“Danya Katok sang with purity of tone and an exquisitely balanced sense of the panoply of emotional nuances of grieving.”
-Christian Carey, Sequenza21
