Ms. Thompson has a pure soprano and immaculate articulation, in which each note even in the rapid sixteenth note passages can be distinguished; she made the boy’s anguish palpable.
Sophie Thompson portrayed Eliza’s wariness and ultimate courage with a lyric soprano of great sweetness and delicacy. The anger she projected ... was potent and poignant.
Sophie Thompson sang beautifully as Eliza, giving dimension to the wife of the Prophet, determined to
prevent her daughter, Lucinda, from suffering the same fate as her own.
