The Sunday Telegraph London, June 6th, 2004
Another handsome production from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, this time by Martin Lloyd-Evans of Britten's early chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia. As recent productions by ENO and the Royal Opera House have shown to devastating effect, at the heart of this Roman parable of the virtuous wife ravished by Tarquinius lies an ambiguity: does Lucretia subconsciously desire what destroys her? Well, not as performed by Julie Pasturaud, she doesn't. This French mezzo has a rounded, mobile voice with an impressively coloured lower register, but there was little erotic charge between her a...
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