The version offered was clearly very satisfactory and its main strengths were the visuals, the solid preparation and the choice of the cast. Marcelo Perusso in his multiple duties as stage director, set designer and costume designer, served with excellence the work of which he is a librettist. The acting movement was coherent and precise. The timeless setting with stone columns and...
Elizabeth DeShong, making her Royal Opera debut, was a terrific Suzuki, her ripe, plum-toned mezzo fabulously dark in its lowest register. She turned on Carlo Bosi's wheedling marriage-broker with real venom and the Flower Duet with Jaho was beyond sublime.In the minor roles, Yuriy Yurchuk was a stately Yamadori – the prince offering Cio-Cio San a way out – and Jeremy White reprised...