Julia Portela Piñón’s Concepción was smoky and intense, with a vivid physicality and powerful sense of pent-up energies (her frustration with Gonzalve’s artistic rather than amorous priorities was especially funny) – her voice had great sparkle and flourish in the more virtuosic sequences.” “Julia Portela Piñón’s Zita careened about in a wheelchair with remarkable dexterity.
As Nerone, the warm-voiced Julia Portela Piñón vividly portrays the lustful ruler with a heart of ice