Is she comically over the top , attention-grabbing and at times hysterical ( Anthony Tommasini , the New York Times ) , or is she simply a captivating comic presence ( Charles Isherwood , Variety ) ? Not everyone loved the New York ' s Peter Davis says , [ T ] he characters [ are ] foggily defined and the heart of the opera left unexamined .
Some people liked the New York ' s Peter Davis opera and some people didn 't .