Press

  • She's different, immediately recognizable upon first listen, and exceptional: she has a free and expressive vocal style, playing with its expansiveness in space, enjoying the freedom of creating in the present moment.

    — Michaela Vostřelová for Aktualne.cz about There is Home at Festival Music is…

  • The performance by Bella Adamova was perhaps the most delightful surprise of the festival.

    — Petr Fischer for Lidové Noviny about Prague Spring 2023

  • Through her unconditional identification with the song texts, she set the artistic highlights of the evening.

    — Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung about Heidelberger Frühling Liedfest 2023

  • “I immediately warmed to the velvety and rounded mezzo of Bella Adamova”

    — Bachtrack about Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms 2024

Reviews

  • “Mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova used her rich voice tellingly, even though she only had eight bars of music to sing”

    Music OMH about Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms 2024

  • “I immediately warmed to the velvety and rounded mezzo of Bella Adamova”

    Bachtrack about Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms 2024

  • "... mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova’s voice is so beautiful that we probably all regretted that Janáček gave her so little to do."

    Seen and Heard International about Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms 2024

  • “The audience was captivated by the performance of the alto Bella Adamova. The singer with a remarkable technique brought a mixture of darker and lighter colours into the symphony with her solo 'O Röschen rot!', which she shaded with great flexibility”

    Markéta Jůzová for Harmonie about Mahler 2 with FOK 2024

  • “Like any great singer, Adamova exhibits remarkable range of emotional expression and fashions it in response to the shifting moods of the material… both imprint themselves with authority on all twenty-one selections. While Adamova and Gees execute all four composers' works with conviction, they luxuriate in the Mahler material in particular.”

    textura.org about ‘There is Home’ 2023

  • “… a superb recital of art songs, all of which perfectly suited her crystal-clear voice. She is an obvious name to watch…”

    MusicWeb International about ‘There is Home’ 2023

  • "Reliably mastered vocal technique, including clear declamation in various languages, is only the foundation of Bella Adamova's most distinctive feature - a deep resonance with the language, lyrics, and music that she interprets across a wide range of emotions. In subtle dynamics, when playing with tempos, with agogics, and accents, she captures the innermost corners of the songs she interprets. And it is evident that she resonates with pianist Michael Gees, with whom she has been in tune since 2015, also as an improviser.”

    Daniel Jäger for Album of the Day on ČRo Vltava about ‘There is Home 2023

  • "Her interpretation presented a captivating kaleidoscope of vocal expressive possibilities, as she seamlessly moved from the most painfully quiet pianissimos, through ironic and self-tormenting waves quickly silencing the soft, sweet heights full of hope, to the rawness submerged in deep tones."

    Blanka Hrubá for Opera Plus about Winterreise at St. Wenceslas Music Festival 2023

  • "The performance was perhaps the most delightful surprise of the festival... the singer surrendered herself to Srnka's songs and, in the best sense of the word, enjoyed them with an enthusiastic audience. The freedom and joy of the possibilities of singing to express the tones of the modern world remained even in the songs of Kurtág, Wolpe, Janáček, and Mahler. Here the voice was showcased as an independent musical instrument that, from silence to speech to mere resonance in space, can express any feeling or even narrative.”

    — Petr Fischer for Lidové Noviny about Prague Spring 2023

  • "...a performance that from a vocal point of view had few things to fault. The singer has an excellent command of her interestingly coloured voice throughout the dynamic range, which she is able to use appropriately... Bella Adamova, who is certainly not lacking in stage charisma, also showed pure theatrical talent here."

    — Jan Venclík for Opera Plus about Prague Spring 2023

  • “For Bella Adamova, songs by Robert Schumann provided the common thread, which she contrasted with those by the Hungarian György Kurtág and a Mahler song. Through her unconditional identification with the song texts, she set the artistic highlights of the evening.”

    — Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung about Heidelberger Frühling Liedfest 2023

  • "The pair of young vocalists surprised in the most positive way. Both of them are obviously passionate about early music. They feel and honour the principles of its aesthetics, respecting the uniqueness of the complex expressions. Adamova's voice is voluminous, colourful, with a rich velvety depth and a palette of shades"

    — Lýdia Dohnalová for Opera Slovakia about Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Zilina 2023

  • "In the song the words of the letter are sung by the rich contralto voice of Bella Adamova, whose sincere delivery of Von Tilzer’s touching evocation of sadness and resignation is the most affecting track on the disc."

    — Len Mullenger for MusicWeb International about Into Eternity 2023

  • “The singer manages to create impressive little scenes of great intensity. Robert Schumann's "Muttertraum" was also a pleasure to listen to. This impressive concert closed with "Oft denk‘ ich" from Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, which was performed with great emotion. Malte Schäfer on the piano was the ideal accompanist with a lot of feeling.”

    — Marco Stücklin for Das Opernmagazin about LIEDBasel 2022

  • "Bella Adamova, who had set herself one of the most musically demanding tasks of the evening with Mahler's 'Urlicht' from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, also made the evening particularly enjoyable. Mahler's statement "Very solemn, but simple" was understood here in the sense of a pronounced lento, which Adamova was able to hold impressively in large arches and with the most delicate pianissimo."

    — Klassik begeistert about the Winners’ concert of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang at Deutsche Oper Berlin 2022