“An especially neat touch was … the handling of Don Basilio, amusingly epicene in David Ronis’ characterization.”
- NEW YORK TIMES
“The comic tenor roles of Don Basilio and Don Curzio were sung by the inestimable and inimitable David Ronis. His voice is so malleable that his characterizations have a vocal life of their own. Ronis, playing Basilio, the most cartoonish character in the opera, came across as the most real because he at least was in touch with the humanity of the effete toady.”
- NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
“David Ronis made his Dancing Master a lithe Fred Astaire look-alike.”
- OPERA NEWS
“David Ronis made for a thoroughly vile and despicable Monostatos.”
- GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
“Craftily stealing every scene in which he appeared, David Ronis was a perfect Basilio/Curzio with a rubber face and a strong, comically flexible voice.”
- OPERA NEWS
“The other roles were terrific… [featuring] David Ronis in some splendid character parts.”
- SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, HONG KONG
“David Ronis’ Goro, the marriage broker, was a special treat. This westernized, Japanese businessman plays both sides of the fence and with Ronis’ performance, is slimy, yet entertaining…”
- COLUMBUS ALIVE!
“Tenor David Ronis was outstanding as Don Basilio… in a marvelous characterization straight out of Sheridan’s School for Scandal.”
- CAPITAL TIMES, MADISON, WI
“While watching Ronis deftly squeeze the last ounce out of this minor role [Dr. Blind], it was not hard to see why he has a career in such parts.”
- NEWARK STAR LEDGER
“David Ronis shaped each servant lovingly, especially a fussy, Frenchified Cochenille and the deaf, artistically inclined Frantz.”
- OPERA NEWS
“David Ronis was a wonderfully sinister Goro.”
- DETROIT FREE PRESS
“David Ronis as Goro, the avaricious marriage broker, made the character’s nature clear from the first scene on.”
- INDIANAPOLIS STAR
