- “The music is rich and emotionally charged, betraying varied influences from Mussorgsky to Britten and Ravel, and carries enormous atmospheric power.” – The Guardian
- “A triumph beyond what even its most optimistic boosters could have predicted. – San Francisco Chronicle
- “For a first opera Heggie has done much right. His bitter-sweet music puts him in the line of happy-to-please American opera composers such as Menotti and Barber, which will not delight hardline critics, but he knows how to tell a story, how to hold the audience’s interest and rouse its emotions.” – Financial Times
- “This retelling is really a shrewd, highly marketable product: a love story with unlikely protagonists. It was composer Jake Heggie’s music and playwright Terrence McNally’s libretto, however, that accounted for its uproarious success with the opening-night audience.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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