“Making her debut in the title role, Elizabeth Llewellyn brought both strong character and immense sensitivity to her portrayal, finding different expressive colours to convey the play of emotions across the opera. Jenufa’s passage from anguished love for Steva to her torment on learning that her baby is dead to her acceptance of a more meaningful love with Laca reflects precisely the humanity to which Hanus had referred, and Llewellyn achieved this with a natural grace.”

— Opera

“In her first appearance with the company, Elizabeth Llewellyn shines with all the subtleties this lead role asks for, along with the passions and subtle confidences.”

— Buzz Magazine

“Making her role debut, Elizabeth Llewellyn brings to the eponymous heroine a vocal depth and dignity that shines through her transformation from spirited lover to battered, bereaved survivor, empowered by her capacity to forgive.”

— The Stage

“Thus it is not surprising that the characters lingering in one’s mind at the end of the performance are the female ones: Jenůfa herself, of course, portrayed with profound sensitivity and a limpid, heartfelt vocal delivery by Elizabeth Llewellyn, admirably confronting the far-from simple task of serving as the backbone of the whole narration ”

— Art Scene Wales

“Elizabeth Llewellyn, the Jenufa pregnant by her cousin Steva, has a wonderfully varied range of delivery, from subtle half-tones to full-throated outbursts of the passion the character so often denies herself.”

— Midlands Music Reviews

“[Elizabeth] acts beautifully, bringing out telling detail: the gestures of desperation as she tries to convince her feckless lover Steva to stand by her; the pained movements that suggest the physical trials of being a mother…her rich soprano soars.”

— The Times