"Tenor Chris Alfonso employed his supple lyric tenor to beguile his lover to take a midnight gondola ride in the song cycle’s opening “Upon the Sleeping Waters....Chris Alfonso worked up truly satisfying vocal vigor to express his “sadder but wiser” umbrage over the downside consequences of a love affair in “What a shame!”...Music historians credit Hahn’s 1923 operetta Ciboulette as his most successful stage work, and the spirited duet between the very young lovers Zénobie and Roger, “Toi! Vous!,” sung with exuberance by Amanda Simms and Chris Alfonso and accompanied by pianist Benjamin D’Annibale, spoke well for this operetta."