Turandot - Dorset Opera

"Designer Cordelia Chisholm has a gift for sensing what works theatrically; with spare visual details she can conjure an atmosphere.......All was icy, apt and relevant - and enhanced by [her] beautifully conceived, stylishly fashioned costuming."

(Roderic Dunnett - Opera Now)

Cosi Fan Tutte - RSAMD

"Being able to say something new in such a commonly performed opera as Cosi Fan Tutte is difficult, but in this production director Ashley Dean and designer Cordelia Chisholm managed to do just that." 

(Neil Jones - Opera Now)

Cav & Pag - Dorset Opera

"Cordelia Chisholm should have the larger companies queuing."

(Roderic Dunnett - Opera)

Kurt and Sid - Trafalgar Studios

"On a memorably squalid junk-den design by Cordelia Chisholm, all fag ends, discarded pizza cartons and dismembered dolls, Tim Stark directs a short, sharp production that finds all the play's wit and humanity."

(Charles Spencer - The Telegraph - **** )

"The production opens in Kurt's attic, lovingly created with an eye for authentic detail by designer Cordelia Chisholm; complete with plastic dolls, with gouged out eyes and scattered Sonic Youth records."

(Emma Catty - Music OMH)

Alessandro  - RCM

"Terrific shoestring design."

(Robert Thicknesse - Opera Now)