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Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-2016 season captured live in HD on the New...
Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-2016 season captured live in HD on the New York stage.
"Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a single season, a rare feat made famous by Beverly Sills—and not attempted on a New York stage since. In this climactic opera of the trilogy, she plays Queen Elizabeth I, forced to sign the death warrant of the nobleman she loves, Roberto Devereux. Tenor Matthew Polenzani is Devereux, and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien complete the principal quartet in the bel canto masterpiece, conducted by Donizetti specialist Maurizio Benini. As with the earlier Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda, the production is by Sir David McVicar, who with this staging completes an enormously ambitious directorial accomplishment." (MetOpera)
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"Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien sounded dry and heavy, but he made a convincing case for Nottingham as a tragic character as well as a villain..."
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Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal"...Later, when she is shorn of wig, collar, and gown, and reduced to the aspect of a frail old lady, she wields Donizetti’s music like a whip, urging the opera to its electrifying end. Death, be proud."
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Vulture
Vulture"The applause and bravos for the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky were so frenzied at the end of Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux” at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday night that she looked overwhelmed, almost a little frightened."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Dreary when it’s not plain vulgar."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Sondra Radvanovsky rose to the occasion."
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Financial Times
Financial Times
