 Its audio quality was mostly satisfactory - "a little too recessed" but also "spacious and atmospheric", with neither voices nor instruments allowed undue prominence.The opera itself was "imbued with warmth, ingenuity and charming colours", a score offering craftsmanship, magic, gossamer, erotic passion and Massenet "at his most bewitching".George Jellinek reviewed the album on LP in "Stereo Review" in September 1979.