WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
New York Times Classical Playlist Choice
Opera News Recording of the Year

“Soprano Camille Zamora portrays both Lucia and, later, her own granddaughter (Lucia II); this serves nicely to encapsulate the cyclic nature of time’s generational flow. Zamora sings with an appealing sparkle that she sustains even as she assures her own daughter not to grieve upon her death; this quality also serves her well in Lucia II’s role as peacemaker. “
– Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News

“This artfully constructed one-act work is the jewel of Hindemith’s late output. Leon Botstein’s beautifully rendered English-language version was captured at a live performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall last year. In many ways this newcomer scores over Janowski’s studio recording, made in partnership with Berlin Radio. Camille Zamora as the Lucias is the equal of Ziesak for Wergo.”
– Guy Rickards, Gramophone 

“The Long Christmas Dinner, Hindemith’s last opera, is a subtle, wonderfully understated examination of changing relationships… The performance under Leon Botstein preserves that lightness and subtlety very carefully. The performances gel, though Camille Zamora as the two Lucias, and Sara Murphy as Ermengarde, who ends the opera imagining the family continuing without her, are special.”
– Andrew Clements, The Guardian (4 Stars)