"The star of the show was Patricia Racette, an unusually youthful Kostelnička, who drowns her stepdaughter Jenůfa’s out-of-wedlock baby in order to protect her own social standing."

—Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal

"...the sopranos Laura Wilde (as a Jenufa driven from tenderness to numbness) and Patricia Racette (a sympathetic, truly human Kostelnicka maddened by piety) square off in scenes of concentrated intensity."

—Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

"Moving from the lead to the heavier role, Racette showed the many colors of her middle range in golden trumpet sounds interspersed at quiet moments that had the velvet textures of a viola."

—Maria Nockin, Broadway World