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) on a crowd in the courtyard of the monastery, where the weary regent Boris Godunov has temporarily retired. Nikitich the police officer orders the assembled people to kneel. He goads them to clamor for Boris to accept the throne. They sing a chorus of supplication ("To whom dost thou abandon us, our father?"). The people are bewildered about their purpose and soon fall to bickering with each other, resuming their entreaties only when the policeman threatens them with his club. Their chorus reaches a feverish climax. Andrey Shchelkalov, the Secretary of the Duma, appears from inside the convent, informs the