How have audiences and critics
responded to the Pocket Opera Players?

Nearly everyone who attended its performances in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 went away enthusiastic, both about the performances and the idea of the company. 

RECENT REVIEWS (text files)!
Sequenza21
The New York Times

Other Critics have written: 

"(Eaton) ... is the most interesting opera composer writing in America today" 
- Andrew Porter, The London Financial Times 

"John Eaton is the most original composer working today" 
- Virgil Thomson 

"Ingeniously entertaining ... Pocket full of operatic innovation ... these enterprizing and thoroughly enjoyable presentations bode well for the future of Eaton's company -- and indeed opera itself." 
- Ted Shen, The Chicago Tribune, on performances of "Peer Gynt" and "An Alternative View of Genesis: Let's Get This Show on the Road!" 

"Operatic innovator John Eaton has winners in [The Pocket Opera Player's] "Golk" and "Don Quixote" 
- The Chicago Tribune 

"All [the performers] gave hearty whelps, cries and barked queries." 
- Andrew Patner, The Chicago Sun Times, on performances of "Antigone" and "Travelling with Gulliver" 

"And expressivity, with superb attention to nuance and detail, is the real point of the exercise."
- Anne Midgette, The New York Times