"Strong contribution came from the ductile tenor of Kurt Alakulppi."
Our Town - Lake George Opera - Opera News

"Tenor Kurt Alakulppi is the tortured Simon Stimson, the church choir director, who, even in death, remains a cynic. Alakulppi is especially convincing."
Our Town - Lake George Opera - The Saratogian

"Kurt Alakulppi played the role of the ambiguous, melancholy alcoholic misfit, Simon Stimson with admiral quiet desperation."
Our Town - Lake George Opera - New York City Gay News

"Kurt Alakulppi, lyric tenor, sang a fabulous solo, his voice smooth and clear."
John K. Paine Mass in D - Choral Arts Society of NJ - Westfield Leader

"Kurt Alakulppi sang with perfect clarity, diction and achieved a good musical result."
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - Skylight Opera - OPERA-L.org

"Alakulppi and soprano Donna Smith sang out as clear and bright as particularly agile and well-tuned trumpets. As actors, they hit the right note of unaffected effervescence."
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - Skylight Opera - Journal Sentinel

"Kurt Alakulppi's strong, lyrical tenor as Valere seemed natural in his role."
Tartuffe - West Bay Opera - 21stCenturyMusic.com

"Lyric tenor Kurt Alakulppi and soprano Aimee Puentes have mastered a surprisingly challenging score. As actors they play it straight. They don't stand nose to nose singing in fortissimo. They don't mug for the audience, but nor do they forget to keep acting when their mouths are closed. The icing on the cake: clear, crisp enunciation."
Tartuffe - West Bay Opera - Palo Alto Weekly

"But this is, after all, an opera: does it deliver the vocal goods? And how! The tenor Kurt Alakulppi is out of Seattle Opera's young artist class - enough said!"
Don Pasquale - Tacoma Opera - Theater Puget Sound

"There were many other ambitious settings requiring demanding expressive singing. Philip Benson's Three Winter Songs is a triptych of "Winter/Light/Bright" and is moving and personal with words that create a haunting sense of cold darkness and deep longing. Tenor Kurt Alakulppi, with his Finnish background, seemed so right for this work, bathed in Northern European sentiments and its Bergmanesque mood."
Three Winter Songs - Downtown Music Productions, NY - New Music Connoisseur

"The performance was pleasant, with blend particularly good between the men's voices. Kudos to Alakulppi for remembering to keep us involved."
Liebeslieder Walzer - Trinity Liederabend Recital Series - The Oregonian

"Kurt Alakulppi was outstanding as the Ghost of Peter Quint, giving musical shape as well as a chilling feel to his long melodic phrases."
The Turn of the Screw - UW Opera - Seattle Post Intelligencer

"Kurt Alakulppi's flexible lyric tenor offered some lovely moments, and he had a flair for communicating the text with the music."
Messiah - Seattle Symphony - The Seattle Times