Hints and tips:
...Pier Luigi Samaritani’s staging, first presented in 1983 and now overseen by Peter McClintock, is predicated on stand-and-sing caricature....
...Young Angela Meade, the rather matronly Elvira, has a spinto soprano – the real thing – that cuts through the thickest ensemble with ease....
...Terfel returned, now nasty, as Scarpia in Act Two of good old Tosca, with Angela Gheorghiu flourishing her special brand of prima-donna glamour as the protagonist....
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