Gramophone Magazine
August 2018
Recording of the Month

Julie Fuchs (Leïla), Cyrille Dubois (Nadir), Florian Sempey (Zurga), Luc Bertin-Hugault (Nourabad); Les Cris de Paris & Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch

"Bloch conducts the Orchestre National de Lille in a vivid account of the score, with muscular playing driving the faster music (a terrific storm) and the exotic dance numbers…But it’s the casting of the central trio of characters where this recording triumphs, with no grit in the musical oyster… Dubois is an outstanding Nadir… Fuchs’s Leïla is no less delectable…Sempey is a superb Zurga." - Gramophone Magazine August 2018