Review: Donizetti’s ‘Robert Devereux’ at SF Opera (****)
by Charles Kruger Director Stephen Lawless, helped by the excellent set designed by Benoît Dugardy, has staged Donizetto’s baroque bel canto masterpiece, “Robert Devereux,” in the style of an Elizabethan play by Shakespeare. It is a bit of an odd mashup, as the melodramatic libretto is not at all Shakespearean, but very Italian, and full of […]