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“Her soprano has real gloss, her coloratura is shaped with expressive grace and her stage presence is gripping.”
OPERA TODAY
PRESS
Musetta © Camilla Greenwell
“Fagan's absolutely possessed portrayal of Tayana - her first time singing the role - provides an emphatic "yes".... Carsen insists this is Onegin's story, in opposition to the degree that Tatyana dominates both the score and the audience's sympathy. So the seven scenes of this production orbit around the titular character. Whether she intended it or not, Fagan's command of the stage and of her character is a resounding clapback at Carsen's orientation."
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"Fagan is remarkable as Tatyana.... the Australian soprano's voice is delicate yet never thin, and always exceptionally stirring, as evident from the passionate rendition of the aria from the opera's iconic Letter Scene"
THE TORONTO STAR
"Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, last in town as the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, is an excellent Tatyana, delivering a most affecting Letter Scene."
OPERA CANADA
Eugene Onegin
2025
TATYANA
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
Ariadne auf Naxos
2024
KOMPONIST
OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
“Soprano Lauren Fagan, in the role of the composer, brings the first recitatives across the stage with great force. The character seems lost, vulnerable, but also accessible. Fagan’s soprano voice reaches a height where one can feel as much passion as lyrical subtlety”
TAGES ANZEIGER
“But above all the first moment of truly Mozartian grace will be born from the aerial duet of Zerbinetta and the Komponist. Ziyi Dai and Lauren Fagan are perfect with their ideally luminous and fusional voices…. No less superb in its exaltation and then fury, the final monologue of Komponist alone on stage. “Music is the sacred art among all!” he sings... Fagan is impressive, playing with the high notes lavished by Strauss to express the fierce melancholy of the character.”
FORUM OPERA
“Köhler and Fagan combine their Wagner/Strauss power with gentle, almost Lied-like nuanced singing. Fagan gives a multi-faceted, at times slightly nerdy and even hypochondriac composer"
SEEN AND HEARD
“Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, making a most belated Opera Australia debut, brought the house down with her lustrous, deeply felt Suor Angelica.”
OPERA MAGAZINE
“However, it is Fagan who gives the performance of the evening. Her vocal performance is exceptional – her Senza Mamma is one of the finest operatic performances one can remember on the stage of the Joan Sutherland Theatre – and her final top notes are heart-rending. Fagan delivers them with her back to the audience, arms outstretched to the heavens, emphasizing just how hopelessly alone she is – even cut off from the sympathetic audience. When Fagan falls to her knees to scatter her son’s ashes in the earth, her anguish is truly palpable.”
LIMELIGHT
Suor Angelica
2024
TItLE ROLE
OPERA AUSTRALIA
La bohème
2024
MUSETTA
ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA
“Cause of all this mayhem is Marcello’s ex-girlfriend, the outrageous Musetta, played and sung with coquettish abandon by Australian soprano Lauren Fagan – until she comes up against sober reality in Mimì’s final moments.”
BACHTRACK
“In a hairpin turn from having just sung Gretel in Hansel and Gretel at this address, Lauren Fagan’s take-no-prisoners Musetta is irresistible, having great fun with the physical comedy (watch out for the flying knickers) but also giving this good-time girl a stature she often lacks.”
THE TIMES
"Marcello and Musetta steal the show. Baritone Mikhail Timoshenko and soprano Lauren Fagan – who blended seriously impressive singing with uninhibited sensuality to magnificent effect."
iNEWS
“But the standout among the astonishingly talented group of performers is Fagan, who so wholly captures the essence of the Countess, drawn between the pain of betrayal and her own desires. When Fagan sings, it's as if time stops. Her rendition of Dove sono, delivered while lying on the steps of the estate's main hall, is achingly beautiful, imbued with pain and anger".
NEXT MAGAZINE
"The vulnerable, yet not entirely innocent, Countess Almaviva of Australian soprano Lauren Fagan in a role debut....her voice is simply gorgeous, etching the lovely long lines of her two great arias exquisitely and with great feeling."
OPERA CANADA
Dove sono i bei momenti, in which the Countess ponders "where the lovely moments" of her marriage went, is delivered by Fagan with touching conviction and a sonorous, bell-like tone."
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Le nozze di Figaro
2023
COUNTESS ALMAVIVA
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023
HELENA
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OPERA
“Lauren Fagan’s bitchy Helena casts a spell of her own with her gorgeous musical expressiveness”
iNEWS
“Rachael Wilson’s dark mezzo as Hermia contrasted well with Lauren Fagan’s creamy soprano as Helena, both relishing the comedy in their sparring”
BACKTRACK
“When anger erupts among the drugged lovers (an excellent quartet of Caspar Singh, Rachael Wilson, Samuel Dale Johnson and Lauren Fagan), there is an alarming degree of vitriol in their voices and body language”
THE TIMES
“Margarita (Fagan) effectively carries the show, and Fagan - fresh from playing the village tart in The Wreckers at Glyndebourne - breathes tearful fervour into every gesture and phrase, scraping a dark, bitter residue of pain from her low notes. She's tremendous, her vocal performance clearly informed."
THE SPECTATOR
“Soprano Lauren Fagan is the actress Maragrita, singing the opening scenes with a deep chest voice but scaling gleaming heights for Margarita's final apotheosis"
THE TIMES
"As Margarita (a part concieved for Dawn Upshaw), Lauren Fagan is superbly foreceful in a part that reaches high both in range and passion."
THE TELEGRAPH
Ainadamar
2022
MAGARITA XIRGU
SCOTTISH OPERA
La traviata
2022
VIOLETTA
STATE OPERA, SOUTH AUS
“Lauren Fagan, as Violetta, is beautiful and the range of her music and emotion is fearless. At every moment in triumph and despair, she holds the audience's attention like a star."
THE ADVERTISER
"The voices of both Fagan and Wang are thrilling, displaying remarkable control, enthralling the full-house audience. Vocally masterful, in Act 2, was the way her singing conveyed a dignified resistance to Germont's disdain....with rich emotion and despair she acknowledged this with one of the most moving accounts of "Addio, del passato" I have ever heard"
BACKTRACK
In their lead roles, Fagan and Wang are astonishing. Fagan's uncompromising soprano purity is a joy to listen to. As the consumptive and unapologetic Violetta, Fagan voices the part majestically and delivers the role with sensitivity and subtlety".
STAGE WHISPHERS
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