"Recording of the week: Though the title-character is naturally assigned several show-stopping arias, it's Zanaida who is the beating heart of the opera, and Galou brings her to life in all her emotional complexity ... Biondi's energetic, imaginative direction is of course key to the success of the entire project, bringing real coherence to a work which could easily seem like Now That's What I Call Music 1732: even the most pedestrian recitatives have drive and dramatic impetus".