"Lyric boasted an unusually responsive cast. Sister Helen is a natural assignment for Patricia Racette, and her intelligent, subtle acting provided an object lesson in character insight and theatrical truth. Racette was also in exceptional voice. Her soprano timbre proved interesting in a role normally taken by mezzo-sopranos, and its silvery sheen contrasted tellingly with the testosterone-laden sound of bass-baritone Ryan McKinny..."

—Mark Thomas Ketterson, Opera News

"As Sister Prejean, soprano Patricia Racette traced a journey of self-doubt that was at least as physically and emotionally demanding. The two are locked in a battle of empathy and terror, and their scenes separate and together are as devastating as anything I have seen on the Lyric Opera stage in recent memory."

—Nancy Malitz, Chicago Sun Times

"Racette’s silvery sound seems to float, whether in the name of doubt or hope or benediction."

—Lawrence B. Johnson, Chicago on the Aisle