"In certain ways, this is an old-fashioned staging. Yes, McVicar moves the setting from the Renaissance to the early nineteeth century ... In spots be forgiven for thinking you've falling into a new film adaption if a Jane Austen novel ... The star of the show, unsurprisingly, is Finley, a youngish, inquisitive, witty, often impish and extremely attractive Sachs ... in glorious voice ... It's a superbly effective reading ... Rarely have I seen an opera video that so effectively created the illusion that the camera was moving just as I would move my eyes were I in the theatre. All in all, a life-affirming triumph".