Phaéton

"This new production ... has many virtues and, alas, some serious deficiencies ... Some of the male singers og all of the female singers have unpleasantly rough voices for music of such grace and delicacy ... The two main tenors ... have just the sort of high-lying, flexible and mellifluous young voices that the opera demands ... Lully's sumptuous choruses are very well sung ... The orchestra of Les Talens Lyrique ... is startlingly good: lush, rich and highly disciplined".

"There's much to enjoy here. As usual with Lully, the most appealing music is to be found in the choruses and dances, including a jolly chaconne ... The cast is led by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, whose light, haute-contre tones admirably convey Phaethon's ambition, arroagance and essential weakness ... Andrew Foster-Williams's virile baritone is equally well suited to Epaphus ... Excellent, as are the chorus and orchestra".