ELEKTRA

Semper Oper Dresden

Tichina Vaughn from the Dresdner Ensemble, new as Klytemnestra, was the discovery of the evening for me, she is great. How this singer can express the terrible dreams pursuing her is profoundly shocking. She has the tones for the tragedy of a guilty queen, and her scenes of desperate solitude make her a tragic partner of Elektra.

ELEKTRA

Oper Frankfurt

The singing ensemble had its highlight in Tichina Vaughn. In the Klytämnestra / Guantanamo empire, she gives the exalted First Lady with a full, well-formed voice in all situations.

SALOME

Semperoper Dresden

"The singing was some of the best I’ve heard at the Semperoper, with a superbly dramatic Herodias from the Tichina Vaughn and an equally compelling Herodes from Jürgen Müller. Both had not only great voices, but real stage presence, the former majestic yet caustic, the latter, by turns, commanding and pathetic'.

SALOME

Semperoper Dresden

'Eine Königin Herodias von majestätische Eindrücklichkeit ist Tichina Vaughn'

IL TRITTICO

Los Angeles Opera

'The only bright spot: Tichina Vaughn as the ragwoman Frugola.'

TANNHÄUSER

Hamburgische Staatsoper

'...the ‚black Venus’ TICHINA VAUGHN bewitched her minstrel with her charmingly sensual, powerful mezzo and her personal charisma. Even in her short appearance in the third act, one could feel the presence of her strong personality.‘

IL TROVATORE

Stuttgart State Opera

"The full-blooded Azucena, Tichina Vaughn, with her room-filling presence, her vocal flexibility and her predominantly clearly swinging high notes is a powerful representative of this role.'

IL TROVATORE

Stuttgart State Opera

'With great intensity, Tichina Vaughn portrayed the Azucena. Her voice, which flows richly even in the low registers, also disposes of the necessary weight in the high registers, so that she masters the role with great bravura.'

IL TROVATORE

Stuttgart State Opera

'You can’t charkterize Tichina Vaughn’s mezzosoprano as a vox diabolica. However her Azucena has something witchable, an attitude of demonic conjuration and she sings her “Stride la vampa” with a continually smouldering blaze.'

IL TROVATORE

Stuttgart State Opera

'And the gypsy Azucena, traumatized through the flaming death of her mother, is the boarder crosser between delusion and reality. She forms in the circle of relationships the figure at the center and was thanks to the sumptuously flowing, opulently legato mezzo soprano voice of Tichina Vaughn also the vocal center of the performance.'

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi Trieste

'Ulrica was the bravissima contralto Tichina Vaughn, whose voice, timbratic and warm in the descent towards the low zones of the register rendered best the exotic elements desired.'

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

Theater Graz

'Tichina Vaughn as Ulrica played her role with agility and expression,...'

GIULIO CESARE

Stutgart State Opera

'Tichina Vaughn sings Cornelia with gorgeous warmth.'

GIULIO CESARE

Stutgart State Opera

'The voluminous and dark mezzo of Tichina Vaughn made an almost over-dimensioned dramatic contrast, but was also an appropriately civilized interpreter, especially in the elegies.’

DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

Stutgart State Opera

'The Stuttgart Ring has some of the greatest singing and interpretation of the text and the music that I ever heard, and today I was totally enthralled at the last the Gotterdämmerung, and wish to review it as follows: 
First and foremost is the mezzo Tichina Vaughn as Waltraute (she was the Fricka in the Walkure as well.) I thought that Stephanie Blythe and Ewa Podles had rich voices...well, they do.. but this lady might have the most gorgeous, rich, luscious, vibrant mezzo voice imaginable. I see on her website that she is quite active, but if the Met does not get her, we need to stage a huge protest. I am trying to think of ANY mezzo I EVER heard with a richer and more luscious tone, and you know how many wonderful mezzos I have heard. I hope we hear more of Tichina Vaughn, as she is truly a sensation!!!'

DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

Stutgart State Opera

'Tichna Vaughn brings greetings from the ancient world with a tremendous mezzo-force – this is a voice to watch!'