The Boston Globe fell in “Love, Italian style” :

Boston Midsummer Opera offers boisterous, appealing Italian comedies

Arts Fuse discovered “the Perfect Summer Break” :

Boston Midsummer Opera may be performing in a new location, but all their virtues have arrived at Watertown intact: terrific singing, fine acting, and wonderful music.

The Musical Intelligencer found the double-bill to be “effectively staged and gloriously sung”:

But the main reason to see this pair of operas, aside from the simple matter of enjoying a night in the theater with two rarely heard pieces by favorite composers, is the very high quality of the singing throughout, which both enlivens the humorous quality of Donizetti’s work and supports the warmly lyric character of Mascagni’s.