David Reynolds, American Record Guide 2019

“The cast for this recording is wonderful. John Brancy has one of the most beautiful lyric baritones I've heard in a while. “

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Clive Paget, Opera News 2019

“John Brancy's vigorous, conversational baritone is perfect for Mr. Fox, and his long opening aria (far from simplistic) is full of the joys of spring.”

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David Shengold, Opera Magazine 2019

“The strong cast brings sharp diction and musicality to their roles. The splendidly sonorous, word-sensitive John Brancy is well suited to the testingly high-ranging music Finley created.”

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ALEX ROSS 2019

“John Brancy infused Magnussen with a frothing intensity.”

Jeremy Hirsch 2018

“Pete is the real protagonist of the show, and John Brancy’s voice had the warm cushioning that’s served him so well as a lieder singer and has kept his voice pristinely healthy despite rigorous seasons of wide-ranging repertoire. Even his falsetto bloomed immaculately.”

Gayle Williams 2018

“Baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan are both the master minds and performers of this inventive program. Concerts revolving around a theme are nothing new, but they transformed the usually stodgy art song template into a longer-arc story of returning home after enduring a war propelled largely by the voices of that generation. Listeners of my generation could liken the program structure to a concept album like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” or Frank Zappa’s “Joe’s Garage,” but with more gravitas.”

David J. Baker of Opera News called Brancy and Dugan’s album A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song, “an even-handed artistic partnership…[in which] These artists address the listener with the urgency of a prophet.”

Opera News, March 2016

“I look at John Brancy, a young artist who’s got his teeth in it, who loves the challenge of art song.”

Gerald Finley, Opera News

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MusicOMH, 2015

"The American baritone John Brancy has an impressive CV, with many prestigious competition prizes and his confidence and winning stage presence were ideal for Malatesta, as was his forthright, easily produced baritone."

Melanie Eskenazi, MusicOMH

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Forum Opera, 2017

"The voice is beautiful, a subtle grain, not heroic but strong enough not to falter under the few blows of the score. The line is neat enough so that the melody is unrolled in one stroke with all the nobility imposed by the princely state of the character. Above all, the interpreter knows how to go beyond the school environment of the competition to give to see and understand the emotional issues of the aria."

Christophe Rizoud, Forum Opera

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Washington Post, December 2014

“Brancy has a warm, vivid baritone with a lot of color...with straightforward ease, giving the music a kind of luminosity, without recourse to what I might term capital-D Diction.”

Anne Midgette, The Washington Post

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The New York Times, February 2012

“…the baritone John Brancy, was a vibrant, resonant presence…” -

Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

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Opera News, November 2013

“The standout of the performance of the night, however, was by John Brancy, a 24 year-old baritone who recently completed a graduate diploma at Juilliard and has already made his professional debut with Dresden Semperoper. Brancy’s impeccable timing, dynamic physicality, and robust voice made him an ideal Papageno.”

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Opera News, April 2016

“It’s rare to encounter a young American singer—especially one as so well suited vocally and physically to a broad range of lyric operatic repertory—so admirably committed to the practice of classical song interpretation.”

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Opera News

“With this all-new staging of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Opera San Antonio has signaled its intention to brook no compromises.There were none to speak of in the youthful cast, led by the bright, stirring baritone and dashingly athletic presence of John Brancy in the title role.” 

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Opera News

"While at Juilliard, Brancy helped others to dream big when he co-founded Operation Superpower, a company that has developed an opera designed to "inspire kids to discover their own superpowers." Working in conjunction with Young Audiences, Brancy, fellow baritone Tobias Greenhalgh, pianist Peter Dugan and composer Armand Ranjbaran presented thirty performances of Discovering Your Superpower in schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in 2013."

F. Paul Driscoll, Opera News

Nicholas Jones 2019

“Several singing roles amongst the sailors stood out: John Brancy as Donald, especially in a lively “poetry slam” of a shanty;”