 Writing in Grove Music Online, Graham Sadler considers the air "Nouvelle Hébé, charmante Lycoris" for Anacreon's bass part and the "ravishing, chromatic sommeil" to be "especially fine", and the whole entrée to be the best piece of the opera.Despite the opinion reported by Charles Collé that the 1757 version "[smelt] of old age" (Rameau was by then 73), Sadler believes that "the new and revised music is almost invariably more interesting than that of the original", and that "the" airs de ballet" are, as always, amazingly inventive".Spire Pitou partly shared Sadler's appreciation, he states that "Rameau’s most striking passage in "Les Surprises de l’Amour" was the 'sleep music' in [the] concluding act".