"Ms. Anderson pranced about as an Amazon-like general's wife and brought down the house with her Elmer Fudd accent"

"Mezzo soprano Alissa Anderson was frighteningly formidable as Lampito, the chief of the Spartan women"

"The most inspired comic creation is Lampito, the leader of the Spartan women, who issues severe proclamations in an accent that combines Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elmer Fudd. She is played straight-facedly here by statuesque mezzo-soprano Alissa Anderson, whose commanding presence only makes her pronouncements more risible"