11.   The young soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, who sang Leonora, has a winning presence but sang with uneven effect.

12.   The young soprano Michele Crider has already sung at Covent Garden, La Scala, and other major international houses.

13.   Yniold, the boy, was sung by a young French soprano, Gaele Le Roi.

14.   He falls in love with a young soprano and devotes himself to creating a new star for the opera.

15.   In the meantime, the widower and the beautiful young Romanian soprano have fallen in love.

16.   The one weak link is the young Italian soprano Elisabetta Scano, a shrill and quavery Musetta.