“Based upon a simple, deft theatrical idea, it has a text nearly as luminous as Vermeer’s paintings, which the work venerates, and it has compelling, appropriately incandescent music. In the usual sense of an opera as music first, text second and stage possibilities last, it is unerring – immediate, subtle, probing, inherently operatic and gorgeously crafted. But as a radical intertwining of operatic elements into the kind of entirely new theatrical experience that ‘Rosa’ was, it is a mild disappointment.” – Los Angeles Times