Camilla Saba Davies / Umsagnir

Similarly, Camilla Saba Davies’s Queen of the Night, intriguingly costumed as something akin to a dragonfly, has vocal confidence, technical brilliance, emotional depth and a wonderfully malevolent Ortrud-esque quality to it. Both arias were smashing.

Camilla Saba Davies, whose soprano voice, which alternates between lyrical and furious moments, is believed to be capable of anything, is transformed into Ernestina; before that it was still the role of the bubbly Franziska Weber.