“Soprano Rena Harms gave the title character’s music a winningly liquid, swooping aspect in a passage from Strauss’ Arabella.”
-The San Francisco Chronicle
“The Donna Elvira, Rena Harms, was outstanding. Her Act II aria “Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata” was moving...Rena impressed me the most, she even had me near tears.”
-The Opera Tattler
“Finally, I can scarcely believe that soprano Rena Harms is a student at the Academy, so poised and exquisite was her singing of Samuel Barber’s incomparable setting of James Agee’s ‘Knoxville: Summer of 1915,’ yet the program claimed her as an ‘academy young artist,’ so I must take them at their word. Neither Harms nor the wonderful ensemble, conducted by Warren Jones, batted an eye when the fireworks began in earnest halfway through the song. Talk about shock and awe!”
-Santa Barbara Independent
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“With a large and lustrous voice... she’s destined to sing opera.”
-Santa Barbara News-Press
“Soprano Rena Harms brought dramatic vividness and vocal flourish to the role of Donna Elvira”
-The San Francisco Chronicle
“Rena Harms’ Donna Elvira showed enormous potential.”
-San Francisco Classical Voice
“Rena Harms’ lush, warm soprano was a standout. Watch out world! Her voice was that stunning.”
- OperaOnline.us
