Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 1999 'Even in this story of midnight villainy the Dutch director Corina van Eijk and her design team apply discrete humor, as they have done in all their summer holiday productions.'
De Volkskrant, August 1999 'Her entertaining and directly appealing versions of not-all-too-heavy operas are in every respect diametrically opposed to the traditional productions which sound great, look fantastic but seem clumsy to the average viewer, who because of television is used to judging the acting.'
NRC Handelsblad, August 1999 'This made for a perfectly constructed performance. The low-budget nature of the production was soon forgotten because of a character direction worked out to the smallest of gestures and the inventive and witty way in which podium, decors and the landscape in the background were made use of. Opera Spanga offers art made for --and partially by--the local population. Non-elitist art whereby in the intermission you eat a sandwich which you brought along yourself.'
