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I Capuleti e i Montecchi
- "In this brilliantly conceived staging by director Thor Steingraber and designer Robert Israel, it has a tight dramatic logic and an atmospheric, visual beauty." The Post-Bulletin
- "Thor Steingraber's direction is most effective, especially in exploring interpersonal dynamics. Adding a mute Lady Capulet is an excellent choice." St. Paul Pioneer Press
- "Stage director Thor Steingraber and set designer Robert Israel updated the timeless story to 1910 which allowed the virginal Giulietta to wear a lovely white wedding dress - and gave it a spare and fluid setting." L'Opera
- "Stage director Thor Steingraber provided movement that was very spare but rich in meaning, offered appropriate, if unprecedented, movement to fill the instrumental prologues of the various scenes, and sketched his characters in fine detail. And the impressive flashing sword play of the huge combat scene ending Act I should not go unmentioned ..." L'Opera
- "Director Thor Steingraber moves his characters and his crowds fluently and smartly and with nice touches of style." Star Tribune, Minneapolis
- "The Capulets and the Montagues intelligently updated the action to the turn of the century with far reaching consequences. Dropping Rennaissance doublets and jewels in favor of a chorus of Capulets in white tie and a sleek wedding gown for the heroine allowed us to drop our assumptions about the story, a critical step ... " Wall Street Journal
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