Laura Alonso Hall in New York in November with the opera "Las horas vacías" ("The Empty Hours") by Ricardo Llorca. Recently she has performed with the Symphony of Egypt. She also toured the most important theatres in China. Last May she played the role of Violetta in "La traviata" at the opera theatre in Darmstadt. She has also interpreted Lucia di Lammermoor in Illinois, likewise the role of Konstanze in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart, in Illinois too. At the Aalto Theatre in Essen (Germany), she received the Best Artist Award, by popular acclaim, and she has sung again during
Persian Letters texts and renewed perspectives. Particularly important were the extensively annotated edition by Paul Vernière and the research of Robert Shackleton on Muslim chronology; also studies by Roger Laufer, Pauline Kra and Roger Mercier, which put new focus on the work’s unity and integrated the seraglio into its overall meaning. Others who have followed have looked into the ramifications of epistolary form, the structure and meaning of the seraglio, Usbek’s contradictions. Beginning about 1970 it is religion (Kra) and especially politics (Ehrard, Goulemot, Benrekassa) which predominate in studies on "Lettres persanes", with a progressive return to the role of the seraglio