10 Nov 2008

Susan Bullock on how Elektra took her through hell and high Cs

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5092244.ece

Neil Fisher [Times Online, 8 November 2008]

I hear Susan Bullock before I actually meet her. And what I hear is pretty disturbing. I am skulking through the vaults of the Royal Opera House; her powerful soprano, with its rich vibrato wrapped around a steely core, is blasting out of the Tannoy on the wall. And, if I know my Richard Strauss, Bullock is currently urging her long-lost brother to kill her mother. With an axe. That her character has been keeping in a hole in the dirt. Which is also where she lives.