Greta Ball
Soprano
Press Reviews
Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw
"The tiny theater is a mixed blessing for singers; it allows them maximum impact, but also leaves them cruelly exposed. The best members of Friday's cast turned this to an advantage, particularly the two singers who played the ghosts, Steven Ebel (Peter Quint) and Greta Ball (Miss Jessel), pale-faced and otherworldly and strong-lunged. Ball...offered some of the biggest and most climactic sounds of the night."
- Anne Midgette, The Washington Post, July 2009
"Greta Ball sang sturdily and affectingly as Miss Jessel."
- Tim Smith, Opera News, October 2009
"[Flora] was matched well by the ghoulish Miss Jessel of Greta Ball, who with her sharp and present voice was much more insidious in this production than Quint, rising up like a viperous specter from a patch of reeds (the only time the hair on my arms stood on end) and again, her hair dripping, from the lake-pit in Act II."
- Charles T. Downey, IonArts, July 2009