PRESS
October 13, 2023 | "Performance review: The Blood Vote, Gasworks Arts Park"
"Vincent’s libretto – spread across seven scenes chronologically tracing Goldstein’s persistence and belief in social justice and equal rights, especially women’s rights – is enlightening in concept and impactful in effect.”
- Paul Selar, ArtsHub
December 9, 2022 | "The Domenic J. Pellicciotti Composition Prize Winners."
"The 2022 winners are Timothy Takach, composer and Caitlin Vincent, librettist. Computing Venus provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of astronomer Maria Mitchell, one of the earliest champions of women in STEM. The opera follows Mitchell’s efforts to cultivate the next generation of women astronomers, even as growing movements threatened to close the world of science to women forever."
- Joanie Brittingham, Classical Singer Magazine
"Tienda" obviously raised questions about immigration, questions that continue to be unresolved in present-day America,,,It movingly evoked all that can't be left behind when a person quits one country for the hope of a better future in another.
-Terry Blain, Minnesota Star Tribune
June 20, 2017 | "Fresh Squeezed Opera Presents Scopes and Prix-Fixe"
[A] fun, frothy satire about an aspiring opera singer who wants so very much to be an opera diva...Caitlin Vincent's witty lyrics had the audience laughing throughout.
-Steven Pisano, Feast of Music
January 20, 2016 | "Better Gods gives operatic life to a little-known chapter in history"
Given the time limit (75 minutes), Vincent did wonders.
Arnold Saltzman, Washington Jewish Week
January 11, 2016 | "Throne Away"
When the libretto indulges in more inventive, character-driven material, the piece comes alive...
Alex Baker, Parterre Box
January 9, 2016 | "Hawaiian monarchy gets an intriguing retelling in Better Gods"
The story of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy got an intriguing retelling...[with]...a tight, precise libretto by Caitlin Vincent...
Steven Mark, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
January 9, 2016 | "Better Gods at The Washington National Opera"
This fascinating and heart wrenching story of Better Gods is a production worth seeing.
Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theater Arts
December 2013 | "Review: WNO American Opera Initiative"
[A]n outstanding marriage between music and words...The story about sea-battered immigrants being interviewed by a hard-nosed immigration officer at Ellis Island raised goose bumps for this reviewer.
Karren Lalonde Aalender, Scene4 Magazine
November 18, 2013 | "Three new 20-minute operas on American themes"
Uncle Alex happened to be the final opera performed...I have to say it seemed to me a case of saving the best for last.
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
November 15, 2013 | "Three Mini-Operas Cast a Spell at Washington National Opera"
[T]he stakes in this opera are immediate and riveting...Ms. Vincent's libretto was a luminous standout...
Susan Dormady Eisenberg, The Huffington Post
November 15, 2013 | "Washington National Opera reveals three new opera shorts"
A nuanced and honest character portrait...
Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene
May 15, 2013 | "Figaro Project gives admirable premiere of Camelot Requiem"
[An] intriguing and largely persuasive piece...reflective and unhurried...
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
May 13, 2013 | "The Figaro Project stuns with Camelot Requiem"
Bornfield and Vincent have created something truly special...
Megan Ihnen, The Sybaritic Singer
A humorous and inventive look at the original...a true example of making opera accessible and engaging.
Megan Ihnen, The Sybaritic Singer
Item SubtitleMay 14, 2012 | "The Figaro Project Effing Kills Don Giovanni"
Caitlin Vincent prodigiously crafted an English dialogue that upholds the integrity of Mozart's operatic legacy...snappy, engaging, hysterical, and edifying.
Melissa Wimbish, Operagasm
October 13, 2023 | Performance review: The Blood Vote, Gasworks Arts Park.
“Vincent’s libretto – spread across seven scenes chronologically tracing Goldstein’s persistence and belief in social justice and equal rights, especially women’s rights – is enlightening in concept and impactful in effect.” - Paul Selar, ArtsHub