- 'In his story-teller, he [Butt] has found an Evangelist with the candid vulnerability of Helmut Krebs. Yes Nicholas Mulroy brings his own striking naturalness of delivery, clarity of diction and honesty... The coloration explores, in microcosm, the Evangelist's own heartfelt identification with the drama into which he seems unwittingly drawn, and which heightens, almost unbearably, as the work unfolds.'
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Gramophone / St Matthew Passion, Butt
- 'Of his eight remarkable singers, several are barely out of college, but they match spine-tingling tone with astonishing maturity. Nicholas Mulroy as Evangelist has a powerful dramatic sense, sometimes floating free of Bach's note values – he is mercilessly harsh when Jesus is spat upon – elsewhere meticulous: Peter’s denial would move the hardest heart... all confirmation of this as my new benchmark'
BBC Music / St Matthew Passion, Butt
- 'Mulroy, in particular, manages to outshine his Molesworthian get-up and finds a lyricism that makes one long to hear his Don Ottavio'
The Times / Cosi fan Tutte
- 'The cast was strong in every area: Nicholas Mulroy (Tamino) a very promising tenor'
Manchester Evening News / The Magic Flute
- 'Led by Nicholas Mulroy's intensely dramatic yet compassionate Evangelist... In sum, a St Matthew of disarming emotional and dramatic immediacy'
Richard Wigmore, The Telegraph / St Matthew Passion
- 'There's no lack of drama in the solo singing either – Nicholas Mulroy's Evangelist is tinglingly vivid...'
Andrew Clements, The Guardian / Matthew Passion, Butt
- 'Nicholas Mulroy gave a spellbinding performance of 'Erwäge'. Gentle and intimate, with none of the overt rage often poured into this aria. He held the audience in rapt, intense silence'
classicalsource.com / St John Passion, Gardiner, BBC Proms
- 'There's a sweet, unforced tenor in Nicholas Mulroy's Belfiore, who is a suave match for the distraught heroine'
The Times / La Finta Giardiniera
- 'Anders Dahlin and Nicholas Mulroy sang their solos with great beauty'
The Guardian / Campra Requiem, BBC Proms
- 'Veritable moment de grace, l'Agnus Dei est plein d'expressivite et de tendresse. Nicholas Mulroy tenait la voix soliste et a tenu toute la salle en admiration face a la justesse de son interpretation'
Campra Requiem / Paris, Cité de la Musique
- 'It was in the solo singing that the most affecting impact was made... Distinguished young tenor Nicholas Mulroy was heard to ringing advantage in Grandi's Plorabo die ac nocte and Monteverdi's Laudate Dominum'
The Telegraph / I Fagiolini, St John's Smith Square
- 'Nicholas Mulroy hat ein sehr schön und voll klingende stimme...'
Frankfurt / Bach Cantatas, Gardiner
- 'The secular, not to say erotic, tone is even more pronounced in Audi Coelum, which was sung with barely suppressed passion by tenor Nicholas Mulroy. In a team of very good soloists I thought he was outstanding. All the others sang well but their tone was inescapably English – I don't mean that in a critical sense; simply as a statement of fact. Mulroy, however, sang with the open-throated assurance that made him sound much closer to the Italian style. This stood him in excellent stead in Audi Coelum and also in his solo passages in the Magnificat, where his singing was particularly exciting. He also combined most effectively with fellow tenor Thomas Hobbs in a marvellously fluent and plangent rendition of Duo Seraphim'
Musicweb international / Gloucester Three Choirs Festival
- 'But the palm must go to Nicholas Mulroy as the Evangelist, eloquent, rhetorical outraged and lamenting by turns, and singing this huge part virtually from memory'
Birmingham Post / St John Passion, Birmingham Town Hall
- 'Evangelist Nicholas Mulroy is een wonderbaarlijk goed verteller'
Prelude / St Matthew Passion, Butt
