In Tudor England, Queen Elizabeth I rules (literally). Ignoring advice from the court, she declines to charge her lover with treason, but he's not making it easy for her. Behind her formidable public persona hides a fragile heart that aches to reconnect with a suitor whose loyalties are uncertain. If ever there was a diva role, this is it-careening from outburts of rage to heartbroken laments-and glamorous Spanish soprano Davinia Rodríguez has the vocal and dramatic goods to deliver a knock-out performance.
Plácido Domingo portrays a wronged husband caught up in Devereux's web of deceit, with Ramón Vargas as the scoundrel at the center of all the trouble.
Program Items
Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Devereux
Performers
Eun Sun Kim
conductor
Stephen Lawless
director