Young Russian soprano Julia Novikova performed twice at the Northern Lights Festival in Tromsø, the capital of northern Norway, this past week, treating the attentive and devoted audiences to a diverse set of songs.
After Renée Fleming was forced to withdraw due to a family emergency, soprano Sylvia Schwartz stepped in to perform with the Oxford Philomusica on the way to the Vienna Staatsoper. At just two days’ notice, Korngold, Zandonai and Leoncavallo were traded for Puccini, Verdi and Lehár.
