"Daugherty's 1997 Jackie O(nassis), with a smart, intentionally self-conscious libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum, takes its subject from the 1960s. It also moves this "real persons" genre more into the realm of Offenbach's takes on Second Empire France. Liz Taylor and Princess Grace appear as frustrated, over-idolised media stars - but their incarnations, like Aristotle Onassis's Rat Pack songs and patter here, are about as true to life as La Belle Helene's Helen and Menelaus. The mix of TV host and "happenings" organiser who brings the widowed Jackie Kennedy back to society in Act I is Andy Warhol (most precisely taken here by Paul Carey Jones) - a neat choice because of his obsession with portraying people by image only."

Mike Ashman, Gramophone, February 2010

"Paul Carey Jones is vocally eloquent"

Christopher Ballantine, Opera, February 2010

"The members of the DVD cast turn in fine vocal performances. Fiona McAndrew portrays Jackie as an introverted, thoughtful woman of heart, much more a victim than a beneficiary of her fame. The high point of the opera comes in an imagined dialogue with Maria Callas - dazzlingly captured in the depiction by Nora Sourouzian - in which the two women come to peace with each other. Here, both singers use all they have to bring the scene to life. It is one of the few truly engaging moments in the opera, one in which music, text, stage direction and cast combine to make artistic magic. Another surprise comes from Simone Alberghini's portrayal of Aristotle Onassis. In life, at least as depicted in the popular press, Onassis came across as a rapaciously acquisitive, arrogant and shallow tycoon. Curiously, Alberghini presents an Onassis who has interior depth and even nobility, whose mendacity is offset by a longing for personal connection. Paul Carey Jones seems spot-on accurate in his depiction of Andy Warhol - creative, appealing but essentially impenetrable."

Arlo McKinnon, Opera News, April 2010