Roberto Devereux Explores the Price of Love and Power

Por Catherine Kustanczy, 26 abril 2014

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“His rich tenor voice brilliantly betrays a heartbreaking vulnerability and keen sensitivity”

Crítica hecha desde Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto el 25 abril 2014

Donizetti, Roberto Devereux

Canadian Opera Company

Corrado Rovaris, Dirección

Stephen Lawless, Dirección de escena

Ingeborg Bernerth, Diseño de vestuario

Benoît Dugardyn, Diseño de escena

Sondra Radvanovsky, Elisabetta

Allyson McHardy, Sara, Duchessa di Nottingham

Leonardo Capalbo, Robert Devereux

Russell Braun, Duca di Nottingham

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Catherine Kustanczy

Catherine is a freelance arts journalist. She has worked in Dublin, London, Toronto, and New York City, in a variety of capacities for film, TV, radio, and digital. She has been part of cultural panels on CBC Radio, the Canadian Opera Company, HufPost Live, and television. Find her at @catekustanczy.