"The cast is enormous ...and it must be said that the real power of the evening is in the ensemble;...and Garret Sorenson (as young Sam Kaplan) let it be known that the audience is in the presence of stars
of the future.
Mr. Sorenson has a lithe, sweet tenor, remarkably open and full in the upper end of his range for a singer who began as a baritone; I have heard Weill's "Lonely House" in a variety of settings by a variety of artists, but Mr. Sorenson's is the one I will remember."
Robert Boyd - Talkin' Broadway
"Tenor Garrett Sorenson has a gorgeous voice with ringing high notes, and he made sweet, nerdish Sam Kaplan into a very real and
sympathetic person"
Sarah Bryan Miller - St. Louis Today
La Traviata
“As Alfredo Germont, Garrett Sorenson…sang fervently in a dark-hued tenor with plenty of buzz and thrust.”
Peter M. Knapp – The Patriot Ledger, April 3, 2006
“Sorenson, who made a strong BLO debut in last season’s Eugene Onegin, sang strongly and blended beautifully both with Kuznetsova and with Westman…”
Keith Powers – Boston Herald, April 2, 2006
“Tenor Garrett Sorenson, Violetta’s Alfredo, has a first-class voice and sings with elegant ardor.”
Richard Dyer – The Boston Globe, April 4, 2006
“Garrett Sorenson inhabited Alfredo with an attractive, Italianate sound and promising acting…”
Daniel Cariaga – Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2005
“Garrett Sorenson is a tenor with remarkable ease and grace in long-breathed phrases and the taste to avoid exaggeration.”
Timothy Mangan – The Register, May 19, 2005
Marilyn Horne Foundation Recital in Sarasota, FL, Glenridge Performing Arts Center
“…superbly lyrical voice and impressive musicianship…judicious use of his ringing top notes and rich, baritonal, lower range. At times, he adopted an intimate sound, at others a declamatory delivery, but always beautifully placed and evenly produced.
“Sorensen…delivered these wonderful show-stoppers with unabashed theatricality and vocal splendor…
“A natural singing actor with a charming stage presence, Sorenson brought all these songs to life as dramatic vignettes, which was precisely their purpose. The intimate acoustics of the theater, together with the singer's skill at projection and pronunciation, carried the music directly to the mind and heart.”
Richard Storm – The Herald Tribune, February 5, 2006
Lucia di Lammermoor
“…tenor Garrett Sorenson shone once again as the hapless official fiancé Arturo, a good test role for leading tenor potential…”
David Shengold – Gay City News, January 12-18, 2006
“The find of the night … Sorenson demonstrated a beautiful, nicely cultivated voice that marks him as one to watch.”
T.J. Medrek– Opera Review, July 26, 2003
Eugene Onegin
“Garrett Sorenson, as Lensky, announced himself as a singer in the grand Romantic style, full of heart and warmth, with pealing high notes and a completely natural feel for text and line. This is a tenor to watch.”
Wayman Chin – Opera News, June 2005
"The BLO has long had a knack for plucking up promising young performers. This time they’ve got a standout in tenor Garrett Sorenson (already a Met regular) as the easily wounded young poet Vladimir Lensky. Every time Sorenson lets forth, his line unflaggingly sincere yet enlivened by subtle dramatic twists, you can expect your spine to tingle, and his pre-duel aria could wring tears from a stone. This is a tenor to love – and follow."
Sandy MacDonald -Edge Entertainment, Mar 30, 2005
“The poet Lensky(‘s)…aria is one of Tchaikovsky's greatest inspirations, and the young American tenor Garrett Sorenson delivered it with beautiful, warm tone and heartfelt emotion…his lyric tenor voice is the real deal, and his musical and dramatic instincts are strong and true.
Richard Dyer– The Boston Globe, March 31, 2005
Otello
“Garrett Sorenson, as Cassio, has a light, clear tenor that's a joy to hear..."
Colin Eatock– The Globe and Mail, September 22, 2004
Die Agyptische Helena, The Metropolitan Opera
“The veteran baritone Wolfgang Brendel plays Altair, a prince who comes questing after the divine Helena with a retinue of white-suited sentinels, trailed by his son, the love-struck Da-ud, here the appealing tenor Garrett Sorenson.”
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
“The tenor star of the evening was Garrett Sorenson as Da-ud, who made his character's all-too-brief scene an exercise in melodic Strauss singing. One wishes Strauss (who had a legendary dislike of the tenor voice) had written more parts like this.”
Paul Pelkonen
“Sounding fresh, as usual, was the tenor Garrett Sorenson, as Da-ud.”
Jim Carlson, Carlson News
“Garrett Sorenson was fine as his son, whom Menelas kills by mistake.”
Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal
Street Scene, Opera Theatre of St. Louis
"Jennifer Aylmer and Garrett Sorenson sang well and acted Earnestly as the romantic leads, Rose Maurrant and Sam Kaplan,"
Judith Malafronte, Opera News
