"Tamara Hardesty was a peculiar joy as Giulia, singing with a clear, agile soprano and spinning out the coloratura with ease."   (James Oestreich — The New York Times)

" . . . sparkles as fiancée Susanna, her lissome soprano bringing the role alive." 
(Connecticut Post)

" . . . e state una dolcissima Susanna."   (America OGGI)

"Tamara Hardesty was as sexy and charming a Susanna as one could hope for
. . . lithe lyric soprano . . . she never seemed taxed and her singing grew stronger right up to the final aria."   (The Day)

"Tamara Hardesty sang the role (Mimi) with winning assurance."  
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

"Tamara Hardesty gave pleasure in many gentle, fluent and well-shaped passages." (Giulia in ‘La Scala di Seta’)   (Andrew Porter — The New Yorker)

" . . . aside from affecting singing, she managed with all seeming innocence to put over the kinkiest S & M ‘Batti Batti’ this operagoer has ever seen."  
(The Star Ledger)