BBC Music Magazine

'Renée Fleming gives an object lesson in bel canto singing, dazzling in the coloratura pyrotechnics ...'
Sicilienne
Renée Fleming sings Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

The Cast

ROSMONDA - Renée Fleming
ENRICO II - Bruce Ford
LEONORA DI GUIENNA - Nelly Miricioiu 
GUALTIERO CLIFFORD - Alastair Miles
ARTURO - Diana Montague

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra CONDUCTOR - David Parry

Gramophone

Renée Fleming's voice 'is the most lovely sound and one with some distinctly personal traits. A voice that is both young and mature, a technique that seems to make light work of all tests and challenges, and a sensibility which seeks out the heart of both music and drama: these are qualities that proclaim an opera singer of the first rank. Not that she outshines everybody around her... Bruce Ford and Alastair Miles are excellent partners as ardent lover and heavy father.'

5 January 2009