Sondra Radvanovsky, Queen of the Met, on Why Opera Is for Broadway Lovers & Royal Watchers
The radiant Sondra Radvanovsky enters her dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera. Some two hours later, and with the help of a 35-pound gown, liquid latex and—who’d have thought—tissue paper, the soprano, barely recognizable, emerges as Elizabeth I in her final days. The metamorphosis, for the Met’s new production of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, marks the third and final queen Radvano…