The soprano Joyce ElKhoury interprets Imogene with a highly placed voice. Her limpid timber swells with emotion in the lower register and in the piano moments, with a thread like sound fleeing from her nearly closed mouth. In a palpitating finale, her acting talents, unbothered by any mise en scene, are shining: her eyes cry, hope, lose themselves and beg in the folly of a character too virtuous to live her illegitimate love, but too in love to live without him. – Olyrix, translated from French
What we hear from the Canadian singer, perfectly at ease with the vocal poetic language of Italian romanticism, deserves more than respect. From her entrance aria to the great final scene immortalized by Callas [ ] Joyce El-Khoury holds herself consistently at the highest level of vocal and musical quality. To her aerial vocalism and her long Bellinian legato lines, she adds here a surprising foundation in the lower register, so often appealed to in this opera. It is a triumph largely deserved she receives at the bows. – Opera Online, translated from french