PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

"Kai Edgar was impressive as Yniold, the widowed Golaud’s young son, singing with clarity and an appealing tone. He also acted with conviction, supplying the opera’s few moments of comedy and, more importantly, delivering a fully rounded portrayal of filial obedience and terror in the crucial scene in which his father wheedles and bullies him into spying on the title pair through a window in Mélisande’s room. Yniold is often performed as a pants role for a boyish soprano, but it’s more effective when cast this way, so kudos to the opera for finding such a good treble for the production."

Santa Fe New Mexican

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"Treble Kai Edgar as Yniold commendably held his own among these stellar seasoned singers.

His singing was very strong, marked by good projection, his French was generally fine, and his acting was focused whether conveying physical victimization, or dispensing poignant humor like when he tells the bald Golaud, 'Your hair is going grey.'”

Opera Today

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"Treble Kai Edgar was a strong Yniold."

Wall Street Journal