"This is an almost perfect performance, both vocally and in its staging and acting ... Charlemagne is taken by the young and magnificent bass-baritone Georg Zeppenfeld, and Fierrabras himself, son of the Moorish prince, by Michael Slade. They both deservedly get huge applause, but Dorothea Röschmann gets even more ... If this doesn't put Fierrebras securely on the map, nothing can".