Yvonne Kenny when she replaced, with only four days' notice, the soprano scheduled to sing in an Opera Rara concert performance of Donizetti's "Rosmonda d'Inghilterra" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It was a triumph and the virtually unknown Kenny became an overnight star. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House the following year, in the premiere of Hans Werner Henze's "We Come to the River", later singing in Handel operas such as: "Semele", "Alcina", "Giulio Cesare", and such Mozart operas as: "Idomeneo", "Mitridate, re di Ponto", "La clemenza di Tito", "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "The Magic Flute". She also
Il Postino (opera) Il Postino (opera) Il Postino is an opera in three acts by Daniel Catán with a Spanish libretto by the composer. Based on the novel " Ardiente paciencia" by Antonio Skármeta and the film "Il Postino" by Michael Radford, the work contains elements of drama and comedy, integrating themes of love and friendship along with political and spiritual conflict. The opera premiered at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by Los Angeles Opera on 23 September 2010. Set on a small Italian island, exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives so much fan mail that a personal postman, Mario Ruoppolo, is hired to