By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 3 February 2011]
Later in the run, this production will be the first live opera to be seen in 3D when it is broadcast to cinemas and on satellite television. With the advance publicity warning of “scenes of a sexual nature”, everything seemed to be in place for a show as three-dimensionally lurid on stage as the story of Lucrezia Borgia is said to have been in real life.