Adam’s neat, charming writing is impeccable, and one recognises the sinuous melodic lines of the composer of Giselle…Michael Spyres possesses exactly the supple, agile voice required for the title-role, and revels in the role’s delicious top notes. As his wife Madeleine, Florie Valiquette offers character in abundance and a technical fluency equivalent to her tenor partner.

If Adolphe Adam’s once-popular Le Postillon de Lonjumeau needs one thing, it’s a tenor who can manage the title role; and in Michael Spyres we have that tenor...Sébastien Rouland conducts his combined Rouen and Parisian forces with likeable attentiveness to the singers...Given Spyres in his stellar pomp, it’s not only diehard fans of 19th-century opéra comique who will enjoy this treat.