A winner from start to finish – elegant, affectionate, impeccably stylish. Mark Stone’s debonair Florestan heads an experienced cast 

Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 13 July 2009

a finely judged performance from Mark Stone's pink-accessoried bounder-cum-romantic lead (a part written for the creator of Pelléas, no less).

Roger Parker, Opera Magazine, September 2009

Victoria Joyce and Mark Stone’ s Véronique and Florestan sing well

Hilary Finch, The Times, 14 July 2009

Mark Stone as the matinee idol (as we would call him) hero.

Robert Beale, Manchester City Life, 14 July 2009

It was fun. It was jolly. It was sparklingly produced, acted, accompanied and sung.

Matthew Parris, The Times, 16 July 2009

The stand-out moments are twin romantic duets between Mark Stone's insouciantly sung Florestan and Victoria Joyce's delightfully fresh Véronique.

Alfred Hickling, The Guardian, 17 July 2009

a smooth and debonair Florestan from Mark Stone.

David Denton, Yorkshire Post, 17 July 2009

Mark Stone as a raffish Florestan, a French forbear of Lehar’s Count Danilo, and Helen Williams as a sparkling Agathe — a happily married lady with an eye for mustachioed men — have the operetta style to a tee.

Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times, 19 July 2009

Victoria Joyce and Mark Stone sang cleanly and sweetly, making an attractive couple of aristocratic young lovers

Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2009

At first glance Mark Stone's Florestan is the kind of amiable cad that Terry-Thomas would have played in a 1950s British film comedy. But in numbers like the celebrated 'Swing' duet he allows an otherwise well-hidden sensitivity to show through, without which the turn of events at the end of Act 3 would not ring as true as it does.

Mike Wheeler, Music & Vision, 20 July 2009

Mark Stone cuts a suitably debonair figure as the philandering Florestan with a lyrical baritone voice

Bernard Lee, Sheffield Telegraph, 16 July 2009