Ercole – Slide 09 ‘We must give tenor Zachary Stains credit for a performance as natural as it can be under the circumstances. Pascoe’s idea of nudity works! ‘

Ercole – Slide 08 ‘Zachary Stains’ performance as Ercole admirably unites movement, drama, delivery of recitatives and virtuoso singing.’

Ercole – Slide 07 ‘It is a real war of mass destruction, truly a preventive strike that the hero of Vivaldi’s Ercole launches against the reign of the Amazons.’

Ercole – Slide 06 ‘The production by John Pascoe was attended by much commotion … partly because of his unusually original staging, immersed in symbolism yet faithful to extant representations of Greek mythology.’

Ercole – Slide 05 ‘Pascoe’s set is all shiny surfaces, with side mirrors reflecting a set of stairs graced with real olive trees’

Ercole – Slide 04 ‘The 2006 Spoleto Festival in Italy presented Vivaldi’s opera  Ercole su’l Termodonte in a production designed and directed eloquently by John Pascoe.’

Ercole – Slide 03 ‘The production of the year – one that will serve to fix the Spoleto Festival in Italy in the public’s collective memory.’

Ercole – Slide 02 ‘DVD of The Year’ December 2007

Ercole – Slide 01 ‘Vivaldi’s Ercole: At War in the Name of Masculine Aggression’