Capriccio : a conversation piece for music in one act

"Following a touch of auto-erotism appropiate to teasing Countess Madeleine, as well as a tendency to over-caress just pulled into line by the focused conducting of Ulf Schirmer, Fleming duly soars. Her fellow artists manage the conversational style with varying success ... but they all look their parts ... Carsen's provocative entertainment offers far more layers of meaning and visual beauty".

"Da det handler om teater, inddrager Robert Carsen foyer, trappe og tilskuerrum og flytter den overdådige arkitektur op på scenen i en elegant leg med mediet ... fristende at hævde, at alt fungerer, musikalsk dog med forbehold ... besætningen er luksuriøs".

"Acht Personen machen - wild durcheinander singend - den schönsten Lärm der Welt ... für Herz und Hirn, Sinn und Verstand ... Oper als Zirkusnummer und Star-Theater. Kitzelnd und kulinarisch. Und sogar als intelligente Interpretation. Ein wunderbares Abschiedsgeschenk für den Pariser Operndirektor".