The opera's opening night proved disappointing to the Milanese critics who praised the production but considered the music inferior to that of Rossini's Tancredi which had premiered in Venice earlier that year.
A noite da estrea resultou decepcionante para os críticos milaneses que eloxiaron a produción pero consideraron a súa música inferior á de Tancredi, tamén de Rossini e estreada en Venecia a principios dese mesmo ano.