"Le Ménestrel" called the cast "thoroughbreds" who did full justice to "all the charming jokes, all the delicious originalities, all the farcical oddities thrown in profusion into Offenbach's music".Writing of the 1874 revised version, the authors of "Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique" said, ""Orphée aux Enfers" is above all a good show.