V.Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda - Title role - London Bel Canto Festival, St. George’s church, August 2019
"A spine tingling performance from Simone Victor in the title role of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda at this London Bel Canto Festival showcase performance".....
......."Safe to say if you don’t have a thrilling Beatrice you’re sunk; but you don’t acquire Ms Victor’s poise without reason. Patently her Beatrice wasn’t going to be a two-dimensional arm waver. The audience was not disappointed. She was compelling and fearless with pinpoint accurate coloratura. And still - stillness is much underrated. If I wanted semaphore, I’d join the navy. ‘Respiro io qui’ was full of grace and dignity. Musical lines were spun effortlessly deploying heart melting pianissimi. In ‘Il mio dolore’ her despair was tinged with an iron sense of sangfroid. And finally, when she made her peace, ‘Deh se un’urna’ was suffused with power and nobility. A triumph in death that received a heartfelt ovation from an exhilarated audience. Spine tingling."
"This first of two performances was very assured indeed, largely owing to Simone Victor as the eponymous heroine. She has a beautiful silvery voice, perfectly placed and ideally toned for the role, delighting with her coloratura skills and ability to spin out Bellini’s long and lovely vocal lines and imbue them with meaning and sincerity."
- Alexander Campell, Classical Source
London Bel Canto Festival - Cadogan Hall, London, August 2018
“Across the two concerts I heard at the festival, one singer stood out: the Danish soprano Simone Victor. Whether in Mozart or Massenet, Bellini or Verdi, her liquid upper register, outstanding breath control and sheer musicality consistently impressed and promise an exciting career ahead. And she proved equally assured in new repertoire, giving the premiere of Stardust, a strikingly original work for soprano, trumpet, horn and piano by Clara Fiedler”
– Stephen Pritchard, the Guardian
E.Kálmán - Gräfin Maritza - Manja - Polyhymnia, Hofteatret, Copenhagen, April 2017
“The operetta company Polyhymnia also has surprises up their sleeves. Surprises in the shape of singers, that this peticular evening, proved themselves as more. Singers like Simone Victor as lush gypsy girl with the important opening aria. She's truly a discovery in the field”
– Søren Schauser, Berlingske
