Performer: Bertrand de Billy

The Norwegian soprano scores a major success at Covent Garden in her role debut as Elisabetta, whetting appetites for more Verdi to come. 

John Dexter's production, now among the longest-serving in the company's repertory, remains a marvel of simple, effective storytelling.

Adam Palka shines as the devil in this revival of Frank Castorf's multimedia staging that relocates the work to mid-20th century Paris, around the end of the Algerian War.