The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Donizetti’s gripping historical drama Roberto Devereux in a performance from 2016.
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky starred as England’s Queen Elizabeth the First, an acclaimed portrayal that crowned a season in which she sang all of Donizetti’s famous “three queens” at the Met.
Tenor Matthew Polenzani starred in the title role as the Queen’s beloved Earl of Essex. Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sang Sara, Elizabeth’s rival for Devereux’s love, and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien was Sara’s husband, the Duke of Nottingham.
Maurizio Benini led a bravura performance of Donizetti’s opera, a portrait of an all-powerful monarch unable to command love.
Roberto Devereux will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 1. Listen to it on Classical IPR.