"Neil Jenkins was a superb Herod, really singing the music instead of guying it, as has been known, but at the same time conveying the tetrarch's superstition and political cunning."

"The most complete performance comes from the Herod of Neil Jenkins. Jenkins bends every note, every phrase, through seemingly infinite shades of bluster, insecurity, and insinuation."

"'Opera Now' readers would expect me to single out - and rightly so - Neil Jenkins as a decidedly Gothic Valzacchi"

"Neil Jenkins sings Arnalta very beautifully, and is the stateliest, most tight-lipped drag-queen imaginable, like Ronnie Barker at his best. And he keeps his act up through the curtain-calls: when a lewd wolf-whistle greeted him from the gallery, he responded with a shy moue and modestly lowered eyes."

The nurse, Arnalta, played to perfection by Neil Jenkins, is a wonderfully stolid, proud drag queen.

"The old shepherd Eumaeus, one of the most wonderful smaller roles in this wonderfully well-supplied opera, is taken now by Neil Jenkins; he is a commanding Monteverdian (I remember with undimmed admiration his Kent Opera Ulysses in the late 1970s), and his focussed energy and disciplined passion light up the stage."

"Neil Jenkins contributes a masterly character-study of Goro, the marriage broker."

Neil Jenkins' Monostatos provided some of the most enjoyable singing and certainly the clearest diction of the evening."