Each offers a strong story involving passion and desire, and all are products of the 20th century, reflecting attitudes and issues which audiences will recognise without having them reduced to lessons on current events.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera

Murie's life story is a testament to endurance, passion and a deep love of Alaska's wildest vistas.

NPR: Mardy Murie, Alaska's Passionate Protector

Mr. Doyle, who also designed the set for this production, has approached "Passion" not as a naturalistic love story but as a piece of lyric theater, placing it in the simplest of environments, an open thrust stage, and arranging the actors in quasiballetic stage groupings that are as poetic as the songs they sing.

WSJ: Theater Review: The Subtle Joys of Small-Scale Sondheim