“Ribeiro is careful to tell the story deftly and clearly… children will be mesmerized but so will adults.” R. Morrison | The Times ****
“Pedro Ribeiro succeeded in impressing upon his audience the beauty and pain of death, life and love… was spellbinding.” K.S. Austin | Bachtrack
“Mr. Ribeiro’s astute production has given it a strong introduction… The staging was stark… the effect was haunting…” J.E. Wald | Opera Britannia ****
“Pedro Ribeiro avoids any sense of tea-set by setting this tale on an Eastern European railway track. It’s an imaginative staging.” S. Thomas | What’s On Stage
“The playful design is by Pedro Ribeiro, who also directs, and it suits an evening that is a bold experiment with scale – the opera lasts little more than an hour yet feels epic.” K. Kellaway | The Guardian ****
“Premiere of the first staging in Portuguese of Bach’s St John Passion enraptured the audience of Guimaraes”
“We are certainly facing a tour de force inscribing this show in line with an aesthetic renewal of theater in Portugal”
“…In Pedro Ribeiro’s stagings, appearances serve to deceive and, at the same time, to tell the truth…”