Neil Fisher [Times Online, 21 February 2008]
On the eve of the latest Baroque exhumation in the Barbican, the scholar who oversaw the new edition of Vivaldi’s 1718 opera had some advice. ìShould you lack the will to delve into the convoluted text,î she wrote in a national newspaper, ìhave no fear; at this early stage in the history of opera, you can go without.î