“Soprano Sarah Aristidou expertly executed the high, melismatic lines, alternating with phrases shouted out in defiant appeal. Aided by Mallwitz’s resolutely unsentimental approach, Aristidou balanced sweetness and irony, the voice’s final fading seemed rendered as anti-climax, symphonic scale falling away to powerless song.”

“Sarah Aristidou , who, in the tradition of Barbara Hannigan, knows how to perform contemporary music with much more than the printed notes, brings to this poetic role a fascinating intensity. There is a quivering sensuality in this voice, with a warm, broad timbre, without any loss of precision. Contemporary music deserves voices as strong as the classical repertoire, and it now obtains them, with Sarah Aristidou”

“As the head of the secret police, Sarah Aristidou turns the coloratura high-wire act into a real showpiece.”

“Sarah Aristidou shines especially as head of the Gepopo secret police… sassy, delightfully close to madness.”

“Sarah Aristidou pulls out all the stops of her pearly-sounding coloratura soprano in the dual role as head of Gepopo and as Venus.”

“Sarah Aristidou is impressive as the head of the secret police (as well as Venus).”

“Sarah Aristidou knew how to inspire the audience with her sensitive performance and as an encore with an a cappella performed Cypriot folksong provided another touching highlight of this full concert evening.”

“Her voice is strong, and very French, reminiscent at times of Denise Duval, at others of Mady Mesplé.”

“On her debut CD ​“Æther” the singer Sarah Aristidou enchants with classic coloratura arias as well as with the boldest experiments in modern singing.”

“Æther is like few other vocal recordings I’ve encountered. Far more than a showcase for Sarah Aristidou, an astounding French-Cypriot soprano with a strong voice and supremely high coloratura extension.”

“Sarah Aristidou deploys a fine and agile soprano, capable of the most remarkable expressive impulses and the most subtle whispers.”

“The French Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou presents her first album and can rightly do so immediately alongside names such as Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and Christian Rivet.”

“The saving grace of this concert performance, in the bare-bones setting of Salzburg’s Collegiate church, was the polish and shimmer of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien’s playing and the purity of Sarah Aristidou’s voice.”

“Sarah Aristidou performed a tremendous, powerful performance in one of the boldest and most difficult coloratura arias in the opera literature, floating effortlessly to the highest heights.”

“Sarah Aristidou represented Zerbinetta as if she were herself: a self-confident woman of today.”

“Sarah Aristidou as Zerbinetta is a discovery… A soprano who wins over the audience, and for whom no top note is too high.”

“Sarah Aristidou embodies the role of Maïma with her lyrical, unexpectedly bright and extremely clear soprano.”

“Sarah Aristidou as Shoko, the latter of whom managed to emote with Oscar-worthy panache, while pushing her voice into the stratosphere.”

“As the scandalised daughter Shoko, Sarah Aristidou is extraordinary. Possessing a coloratura soprano of astonishing clarity and range, she remains vocally unforced and maintains quality of tone even in the most stratospheric registers.”

“In the role, Thomas Larcher wrote the most adventurous coloraturas, which the French Sarah Aristidou pulls off with breathtaking clarity and defiant energy — up to a shattering top note beyond all imagination.”

“Better yet, a superbly idiomatic Sarah Aristidou in the role of High Priestess.”