Press
Of Mice and Men
Curley's Wife | Houston Grand Opera | 2026
"As Curley's Wife, Alissa Goretsky realized the role's crucial ingredients of a woman both troubled and troublesome because of her isolation and loneliness. Her honeyed soprano voice suited the young bride's beauty with a ready flexibility for the flirtatious melismas when in the company of ranch hands and a hall-filling power during her strident neglected-wife's squabbles with Curley."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Soprano Alissa Goretsky easily tossed off the coloratura bursts that evoke the flirtatiousness of Curley’s Wife, whose temptation of Lennie turns the story toward tragedy. ... But Goretsky’s voice had heft, too, and she easily matched Sampson’s impact when she and Lennie each reveled in their dreams of the future—illusions of Hollywood, in her case."
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
"Soprano Alissa Goretsky, utterly alluring as Curley's wife, makes a grand entrance in a pretty dress. The only woman in the story, she is the embodiment of sensuality and vanity. She flirts. She demands attention. She commands the room... Goretksy's ravishing coloratura shines brightly in this role, each soaring and virtuosically delivered phrase a triumph of her power."
EARRELEVANT
"Curley's Wife was more than ably sung by soprano Alissa Goretsky; Curley's Wife is both ambitious and bored and perhaps not very bright. Bored, she spends her time teasing the men around her; her character is the only female role in the cast... She was smartly performed by Goretsky with a gorgeous voice to boot."
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
Hänsel und Gretel
Dew Fairy | Houston Grand Opera | 2026
"Mezzo-soprano Megan Mikailovna Samarin as a smoothly crooning Sandman, soprano Alissa Goretsky as a resplendent Dew Fairy, and a note-perfect HGO Children's Chorus, expertly directed by Karen Reeves, completed the outstanding cast of singers in this performance."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
La Cenerentola
Clorinda | Houston Grand Opera | 2025
"Alissa Goretsky (Clorinda) and Emily Treigle (Tisbe), equal masters of outrageous behavior in the two stepsister roles, were nicely paired for their distinctive and contrasting voices, Goretsky’s brilliant soprano versus Treigle’s rich mezzo-soprano."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Soprano Alissa Goretsky and mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle flounced around with abandon as Cinderella’s stepsisters, and the same glee carried into their singing."
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
"Soprano Alissa Goretsky and mezzo Emily Treigle, as stepdaughters Clorinda and Tisbe, in their comically inflated panniers and cotton-candy wigs, add flair, vaudeville shtick, and sumptuous voices to the cartoon adventures."
HOUSTON PRESS
