 In "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" Lamb comments that the action "owes as much to the British pantomime version of Defoe as to the novel".Lamb singles out Friday’s song "Tamayo, mon frère" and Edwige’s waltz song "Conduisez-moi vers celui que j'adore" as musical highlights.In 1982, "The Musical Times" commented, ""Crusoe" is described as an "opéra comique", but the more hectic cheerfulness of "opéra-bouffe" keeps breaking in.