Ethna Robinson - mezzo-soprano
"There are strong contributions from .......Ethna Robinson's snooping Mrs Sedley....this is now looking like a dream cast." (Peter Grimes/Opera North) Opera, March 2008
"Lloyd makes each role a sharply observed vignette, treating even the witch-hunting Mrs Sedley (Ethna Robinson) with some compassion..."
(Peter Grimes/Opera North) Opera 2007
"The Mrs Sedley of Ethna Robinson is a poignant as well as absurd and malignant figure, to take just one example of the attectionate care which the whole production manifests." (Peter Grimes/Opera North) Spectator 2006
“…nor can I recall a production that produced such plausible characters...Ethna Robinson’s twisted Mrs Sedley….” (Peter Grimes/Opera North) The Times 2006
“Phyllida Lloyd has certainly got some fine acting out of the troupe. Vocally all were on excellent form….right down to the wiry-voiced and dangerously opium-addicted and bitter Mrs Sedley of Ethna Robinson.”
(Peter Grimes/Opera North) Classical Source 2006
“…framing them is a superb supporting cast, among whom I would single out…..Ethna Robinson (Mrs Sedley)….” (Peter Grimes/Opera North) The Daily Telegraph 2006
“…brilliantly played too are…..Ethna Robinson’s Mrs Sedley….”
(Peter Grimes/Opera North) The Stage 2006
“The chorus trio…was given edge and compassion by Ethna Robsinson’s Nurse”
(King Priam/ENO) Opera Magazine, 1995
"The cast is as strong a team as any imaginable today...Ethna Robinson is the poignant Mrs Herring, left alone on stage at the end, looking devastated." (Albert Herring/Opera North) The Sunday Times, 2002
"The treatment of Mrs Herring (Ethna Robinson) was one of the more controversial aspects of Lloyd's reading. In recent years she has been seen as an operatic mother-from-hell...her she was more of a victim than oppressor....The final image of the evening was of Ethna Robison standing alone in fromt of the curtain looking absolutely shattered." (Albert Herring/Opera North) Opera Magazine, April 2002
“..Ethna Robinson a dignified Larina….” (Eugene Onegin/Opera North)
The Sunday Telegraph, 2001
"Ethna Robinson made her mark as Herodias's Page." (Salome/ENO) Opera Magazine, June 1999
"...the quality of Ethna Robinson's Suzuki, stalwart believer in traditional Japanese valuese and wisely wary of American ships passing in the night." (Madam Butterfly/ENO) The Times, March 1997
"Ethna Robinson makes much of the Duchess..." (Luisa Miller/Opera North) Independent, 1995
"Ethna Robinson's dignified Frederica..." (Luisa Miller/Opera North) The Sunday Times, 1995
“The chorus trio…was given edge and compassion by Ethna Robsinson’s Nurse”
(King Priam/ENO) Opera Magazine, 1995