 Robert Lloyd was a "sonorous, flexible Bailiff", "idiomatic in French".Isobel Buchanan's Sophie expressed the "young girl's unspoilt views on life with forward, bright tone - just right".Thomas Allen's Albert was "ideal", with enunciation as good as Lloyd's and "controlled, velvet tone", a figure as persuasive in his reverent devotion to his betrothed as in his paternalistic concern for his infatuated rival.