"Saul opened the concert with Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," and which the orchestra played gorgeously and with full sumptuousness." 

-Arkansas Democrat Gazette

"Valery Saul opened her selections from Bizet’s Carmen with a dreamy account of the Act 3 Entr’acte...she captured the seductive tone of Carmen’s Habanera and the braggadocio of Escamillo’s Toreador’s Song.”

- The Dallas Morning News