THE LOSER, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
“Gilfry’s lyric baritone sounded crisp and effortless in the narrator’s ironic patter, warming up to a ravishing mezza-voce in the opera’s single scene of open emotion. Gilfry’s sigh of the single word “Yes” felt as erotic as Tristan’s first glimpse of Isolde.”
”The narrator, here the baritone Rod Gilfry in a tour-de-force performance… Mr. Gilfry sings every phrase with crisp diction and dramatic point, delivering phrases with virile energy, sudden bluster, or, during vulnerable moments, an aching confusion that takes you by surprise. He is becoming the singer of choice for new American operas, after his triumph as Walt Whitman in the premiere of Matt Aucoin’s powerful “Crossing” in Boston last year.”