“Lucy Schaufer was a Marie Curie dignified in presence and eloquent in utterance.”
(Opera Magazine)

“With McNeff’s delicate instrumentation evocatively realised by the Chroma Ensemble under Robin Newton, and every word made crystal clear by Mary Plazas, Katherine Bond and especially Lucy Schaufer as Marie, the work emerges as an autumnal but lyrical song-cycle counterpointing the certainties of science against the unfathomable and often painful complexities of human behaviour.”
(The Times)

“The slow ebb and flow of the accordion backs a sweet, pious aria from Lucy Schaufer as Polycaste.”
(The Evening Standard)