Luigi Cherubini's opera Medea is a showcase for the soprano singing the title role, and in Sondra Radvanovsky, David McVicar’s production has a supreme artist at the peak of her powers.
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky opens the new season as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance a tour-de-force role made famous by opera’s ultimate diva, Maria Callas.
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The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover.
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