The other contender for star of the evening would have to be the lovely Alexia Voulgaridou as Nedda. She made a name for herself in Hamburg as Blanche in the production of Les Dialogues des Carmélites which literally brought the house down up until last season (and has just been released on DVD), and the city now has a new production of Gounod’s Faust to look forward to next year in which she will sing Marguerite alongside Ukrainian bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Méphistophélès.
Bettina Mara, www.musicweb-international.com, July 2010