 As Clarice, the darling of the star-gazing confidence trickster, Edith Mathis "[negotiated] the "fioriture" of 'Son fanciulla da marito' with brilliant clarity".As Clarice's sister Flaminia, Ernesto's best beloved, "that admirable stylist Arleen Augér [revelled] in her tremendous bravura aria 'Ragion nell'arma' ... and in the tender 'Se la mia stella'".And as Lisetta, the below-stairs mezzo wooed by Cecco, Frederica von Stade dispatched her helter-skelter comic numbers with apparently effortless virtuosity.