Opera Integra

OPERA INTEGRA's next project (following The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lucia di Lammermoor at St Peter's last year) is Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, the least performed of his "Tudor queens" series. Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda are presented regularly, but not so this opera - but, why?. Musically it is superb, with extraordinary arias and duets (as would be expected), but it is the psychological aspects of the drama that intrigue. Elizabeth I is trapped in her role of head…