Gramophone

'Rosalind Plowright gives a blinding account of the Egyptian princess's love, jealousy and eventual remorse, thus confirming the fact that her character is the most interesting, as regards development in the whole work. All her emotions are expressed in gleamingly dramatic tone and, above all, in an expressive use of Edmund Tracey's translation, for once entirely justifying giving a work in the vernacular... A long time stalwart of this Chandos series, (Dennis O'Neill) has done nothing better in it than this reading of a role he has taken often on stage... He has the power for the dramatic moments... and more often perhaps than is possible in the theatre, he sings with subtle sensitivity.'