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‘You weep when Jacqueline Varsey’s beautiful and astonishingly natural Mimi takes her last difficult gasps and stops…. Ms Varsey’s Mimi is perfect;triste-looking, with a lovely, colourful flexible voice.

La Boheme Holland Park Opera – The Evening Standard – Tom Sutcliffe

 

Jacqueline Varsey not only has the diminutive build and vulnerable looks for Puccini’s heroine, she also has the voice that can swell to the music’s climaxes or diminish to a thread to express to ebb and flow of Mimi’s fortunes.

La Boheme Holland Park Opera – Opera – Margaret Davies

 

Of the supporting cast….Jacqueline Varsey (ADC to Murat), stand out for clarity and character.

War and Peace English National Opera – The Independent on Sunday – Anna Picard

 

Jacqueline Varsey is a deliciously pert Yum Yum, who gets full value from the comedy while suggesting a will of iron beneath the schoolgirl exterior.

The Mikado D’Oyly Carte Opera – The Daily Telegraph – Charles Spencer

 

Jacqueline Varsey as Yum Yum is warm and winsome.

The Mikado D’Oyly Carte – The Times – Robert Thicknesse