Susan Gritton "Turandot" (Covent Garden); Donna Anna "Don Giovanni" (Bolshoi & Opera de Montreal & Scottish Opera); Elettra "Idomeneo" (Netherlands Opera) and Konstanze "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (Deutsche Staatsoper & Bayerische Staatsoper). Title roles include Theodora (Glyndebourne); Rodelinda (Bayerische Staatsoper); The Bartered Bride (Covent Garden) and The Cunning Little Vixen (ENO). On the concert platform her work spans many periods and styles and includes Ravel's "Shéhérazade" (RLPO/Mackerras); Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem" (Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle & Philharmonia/von Dohnànyi); Berg's "Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck" (Swedish Radio Orchestra/Harding) and Honegger's "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano). Other highlights include Handel's "Messiah" (ROH Orchestra/Pappano);
The Cunning Little Vixen Forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious Vixen Cub (usually sung by a young girl), inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a pet. Time passes (in the form of an orchestral interlude) and we see the Vixen, now grown up into a young adult (and sung by a soprano), tied up in the forester's yard with the conservative old dachshund. Fed up with life in confinement, the vixen chews through her rope, attacks the Cock and Chocholka the hen, kills the