THE HOUSE TAKEN OVER

Michael Milenski | Opera Today, 23.07.13

(...) (the libretto provided) Mendonça with a structure on which to expound infinite combinations of tones, colors and rhythms (...) One musical delight followed another in an astonishing array of variation elaborated by these instruments. Fortunately the grandstand seating at the outdoor Domaine du Grand St. Jean gave us full view into the pit where the evening’s excitement took place. Plenty of it. Cerise sur le gâteau: the trumpeters at the finale abandoned their horns in favor of melodicas (...)