Performance Reviews
Title Role - Tosca, English Touring Opera

" Unwin is an experienced Madame Butterfly .... but nothing I have previously heard of her prepared me for the outstanding vocal qualities she displayed here. ...... I don't think I have heard a British Tosca singing so well in English ... Unwin has the blade like edge the role requires, with a penetrating chest voice and gleaming high notes, and she phrased her Act 2 aria quite beautifully .... her stand off with Scarpia in Act 2 was riveting.

Hugh Canning, Opera Magazine


In the title role, Julie Unwin has enough juice in the voice to ride the great climaxes and enough grandeur of manner to convince as the Roman diva capable of wielding a knife when the going gets tough ... ( Scarpia's ) attempted rape of Tosca who - as coolly personified by Unwin - sure is ready for him

George Hall, Observer. Sunday March 12


Julie Unwin's Tosca is highly appealing and she sings Vissi d¹arte with poise and tonal colour

Edward Bhesania, The Stage


As Tosca, Julie Unwin is a conscientious performer with a sound technique and an attractive voice that does the role's lyrical aspects full justice

Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph


"Julie Unwin Flowers into a warm emotional Tosca. Her loathing of the police chief is palpable and the moment she stabs him comes as a visual shock"

Clare Colvin, Sunday Express



"Julie Unwin had energetic command of the jealous heroin"

Neil Fisher, The Times

 
Anna Bolena - Hackney Empire, English Touring Opera

Anna was played by Julie Unwin and is the ETO’s main star and in this performance, she sings magnificently as I remembered her in Tosca. Her Anna is hopeful and defiant, and her moment of brief madness was heartrending

Opera Today


Julie Unwin’s feisty Anna sailed through the difficulties of the role. Unwin is affecting in the reflective section of her final mad scene.

Hugh Canninning, The Times


Anna was played by Julie Unwin and is the ETO’s main star and in this performance, she sings magnificently as I remembered her in Tosca. Her Anna is hopeful and defiant, and her moment of brief madness was heartrending.

Opera Today