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);
Boris Godunov (opera) finished in 1872 (vocal score, 14 December 1871; full score 23 June 1872), and submitted to the Imperial Theatres in the autumn. Most Mussorgsky biographers claim that the directorate of the Imperial Theatres also rejected the revised version of "Boris Godunov", even providing a date: 6 May 1872 (Calvocoressi), or 29 October 1872 (Lloyd-Jones). Recent researchers point out that there is insufficient evidence to support this claim, emphasizing that in his revision Mussorgsky had rectified the only objection the directorate is known to have made. In any case, Mussorgsky's friends took matters into their own hands, arranging the performance of