Gramophone

'The lovers have light, well-matched voices, Mary Plazas avoiding the pert, hard character-note and vocal tone that can make Adina so unsympathetic, and Barry Banks giving particular pleasure with the freedom and clarity of his upper notes...the playing of the Philharmonia under David Parry calls for special remark: there are passages in the score that find a flavour, their own by rights but usually lost because not sought out.'

Opera Now

'..you would have to look a long, long way to improve on the buffo skills of Andrew Shore as Dulcamara - his interpretation is quite simply a classic.'