Guanqun Yu’s Medora, by contrast, passes the test by a wide margin. The soprano is gifted with a diamond-like mezzo, pure and crystalline. The vocality is bright, carried with beautiful phrasing, hers is a sweet and innocent Medora, loving and in the tragic finale, sorrowful. Even in her brief role, the soprano delineates every inclination of the troubled romantic heroine who sacrifices herself for love, unaware of her Corrado’s favorable fate. The voice she possesses is very well projected in the hall.

Opera Mundus – Paola Labarile