"Joanna Ehlers’s Herodias offered caustic bite and a Wildean cynicism delivered with relish."
C. B. Adams, PopLifeSTL.com
"That debate is cut off by the caustic Queen Herodias in a persuasively haughty and wryly cynical portrayal by mezzo Joanna Ehlers. She has one of the few real laugh lines of the libretto, and it’s classic Wilde: “Ich glaube nicht an Wunder, ich habe ihrer zu viele gesehn!” (“I don’t believe in miracles, I have seen too many.”)
Chuck Lavazzi, St. Louis Arts Scene
"Joanna Ehlers sings Herodias. This is a lady who is not to be diverted from her goal. When others are seeing fantastic things in the moon she says, “The moon is the moon.” Ms. Ehlers gives her a granite strength."
Steve Callahan, Broadway World
"Joanna Ehlers was suitable imposing and projected the character of La Zia Principessa with the right amount of imperious frost on her personality."
S. Fairbank
