Einn glæsilegasti listamaður þjóðarinnar, Kristinn Sigmundsson, fær glimrandi dóma fyrir frammistöðu sína í Rosenkavalier í Metropolitan óperunni í New York í Financial Times. Hann er sagður standa upp úr í eiginlegri og óeiginlegri merkingu:

„The cast of the current revival is solid, also stellar. But one figure towered above the rest on Friday, literally and figuratively. Undertaking his first Baron Ochs in New York, the Icelandic bass Kristinn Sigmundsson dealt in revelations. His tone dark and his dynamic range broad, he exuded raw power, crusty lust and comic bravado, all reinforced by a trace of gravitas. This Lerchenau managed a rare balance between baron and ox, and, not incidentally, descended with rambling, rumbling ease to the subterranean E that closes Act Two. In context, it hardly mattered that his piquant articulation of the text stressed Hochdeutsch at the expense of an echt-Austrian dialect.“