"Macbeth may well be Verdi's most under-appreciated opera.  Thanks to the Chorus pro Musica and conductor Jeffrey Rink, Boston listeners got a rare opportunity to hear just what a thrilling work it really is ... Rink fielded a performing team of considerable strength and depth.  The chorus sang its heart out ... entering into the drama with commitment.  The orchestra ... created an atmosphere of tragic doom.  Burning up the stage as Lady Macbeth, soprano Linda Roark-Strummer brought volcanic tone and temperament to the performance ... At the highest volume levels and pitches, the voice erupts thrillingly .. the soprano is alert to every nuance of every word.  Her Lady Macbeth was at once seductive, ruthless, castrating, and finally, pitiable.  I just loved it when, in her first-act aria, she planted her feet wide apart, spread her arms, and exploded with ambitious fury.  As Macbeth, Jason Stearns sang with great warmth and nobility of tone ... he sang with heartbreaking resignation."   Ellen Pfeifer, Boston Globe

"A decade ago, when Jeffrey Rink became Music Director of Chorus pro Musica, who'd have guessed he'd become Boston's pre-eminent Verdi conductor?  But his concert version of Otello last year was thrilling.  So why not more Verdi, in this centennial year of the composer's death ... Why not Macbeth? ... Rink provided excitement...   The chorus was splendid.  So was the orchestra ... Jason Stearns ... sang the title role with a ringing yet elegant voice that never tired ... [Linda Roark-Strummer's] voice has stunning power, and she used it with such dramatic intelligence, such palpable irony ... her movement was always in character ... Rink provided a clear sense of Verdi's dramatic and musical design."  Loyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix