Press

"A fluid fusion of melodic inspiration and percussive drive - charged with energy - [with] a power of its own."

— Ken Smith, Opera Actual

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"Sosa’s composition is well-balanced to the story’s narrative, and his vocal writing aroused strong emotional peaks and valleys, magnified by the characters’ impassioned performances."

— Kevin Baldwin, I Care if You Listen

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"Sosa’s score was agile and entertaining, as befits such a journey. High points included the seductive slow number sung by Hilaire as Mara in her guise as a hostess in a technicolor housecoat, a chilling sequence featuring Lopez as Sha’s humanity is tested, and a crackling vocal duel between Guan Yin and Mara."

— Zoë Madonna, The Boston Globe

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"The electronically produced high-pitched screeches Sosa orchestrates serve as a dictator of Beltran’s madness and gives us the feeling that her cold prison cell bars are not only screaming, but bending and twisting their way towards her."

— Evan McCormack, Opera Pulse

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"Romantic symphonic music of tragedy and loss is evoked without compromising the twenty-first century edge of industrialized brutality"

— Jean Ballard, Theater Scene.net

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"The boldest choices on Tárogató Constructions are to be found on Lamneck and Jorge Sosa’s Enchantment, in which Lamneck sounds her most relaxed amid Sosa’s intriguing and deftly painted landscape."

— Colin Holter, I Care If You Listen

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"Sosa’s music, conducted by Maria Sensi Sellner, flowed naturally with the rhythms of speech; in one gorgeous duet early in the opera, the two main characters reminisce on the divergent lessons their mothers gave them about how to behave in their new country.”

— Zoë Madonna, The Boston Globe

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"Jorge Sosa's score is rapturous...As an evening's entertainment, this should not be missed...As an experiment in digital performance, this should not be ignored."

— Andrew Child, Broadway World

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"Composer Sosa’s broad stylistic palette incorporated lyrical impassioned melodies, kooky carnival music, and efficient recitative"

— Joanne Sydney Lessner, Opera News

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"Jorge is a wonderful, extremely romantic composer, with a great sense of fantasy and imagination. His music blends traditional Mexican folk sounds with an almost Puccini-like lyricism"

— David Alan Miller, Broadway World

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"Dreamlike and sometimes even nightmarish music."

— Ruth Renée Reif, Crescendo Magazine