“I’m not one of those people who considers opera the catch-all cure for everything, but I’ve been backstage at enough of them to know that van Gogh, even on his worst days, would have fit right in. His temperament seems to be the soul of opera. Besides his reputed volatility, there’s his ability to find soaring emotional resonance in things others consider mundane. Had van Gogh lived long enough, he’d have found opera.” – Philadelphia Inquirer