Product: Donizetti - Roberto Devereux / Rudel, Sills, Alexander, New York City Opera (1975)
Rating: 4.0
Roberto Deveraux a different view of Queen Elizabeth
Roberto Deveraux presents England's Queen Elizabeth I in a different light than most English history books. The opera, written by Donizetti an Italian composer, portrays her as a woman starving for love and jealous for one man she thinks could love her. Beverly Sills presents a magnificent projection of her in this image. Her role is clearly a colorotura role and her voice, particularly in the closing aria, magnificently projects a woman lamenting her life. This opera is rarely performed in the US and I think this is so because of the plot rather than the music. A good buy and a good watch.