In August 2012 the Volkskrant declared Falstaff rivisto to be one of the best Shakespeare interpretations in recent years. 'Corina van Eijk's mini opera festival is known for its original ideas, but there has never been a Spanga summer that was so exciting.' '(...)it has never sounded as humorous as in Spanga.'
NRC Handelsblad, June 21, 2011 'The essence of the opera remains intact.'
De Volkskrant, June 24, 2011 'Director Corina van Eijk, who with her Opera Spanga has more often than not given familiar repertroire an unorthodox twist, goes a giant step further with this frenzied Falstaff. (...) but regardless of how risky the undertaking may be, it works. (...) makes even more evident how ingenious it is put together.'
Dagblad van het Noorden, June 24, 2011 'Purists might disapprove, but it sings and swings like a bomb. (...) It is a sort of cultual Monty Python - extremely well done- and it perfectly reinforces the cartoon-like quality of this revised Falstaff. (...) It adds up to the most effervescent Opera Spanga in years. Go see it!'
Leeuwarder Courant, June 23, 2011 'Falstaff rivisto, a modern Gesamtkunstwerk'
