NEW YORK—Sondra Radvanovsky again triumphed in the last work of Donizetti’s Tudor Queen trilogy, “Roberto Devereux.” She had previously starred at the Metropolitan Opera in the first two of the operas, “Anna Bolena” and “Maria Stuarda.” This is the Met’s first staging of “Roberto Devereux.”
In the first, she portrayed the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, one of the wives of Henry VIII. In “Maria Stuarda” she played Henry’s daughter from his first marriage. She was executed by order of her half-sister Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry and Boleyn), here called Elisabetta, who had been crowned the Queen of England.
Sondra Radvanovsky is brilliant as Elisabetta in Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux." Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
