"The veteran tenor brought striking sweetness of tone to his ominous warning to a villager not to joke about his wife’s fidelity (“Un tal gioco, credetemi”) and Thomas rose to the challenge of “Vesti la giubba” with impressive power, secure top notes, and a genuine sense of Canio’s emotional devastation. In the climactic play within a play of Act II, he fully conveyed the character’s mounting fury as Canio repeatedly bursts out of his clown role to confront his wife."