There is crispness in the tone of Marita Paparizou, rather as there was in Marilyn Horne’s, well suited to Tauride and given full rein in the vengeance aria ‘Qual Leon che  fere irato’, I should like to hear her as Arsace in Semiramide. She sails through her part with no smudging or fudging, a worthy opponent to…

John T. Hughers