Double Bryn Terfel: blood & bounty

Aleko is Rachmaninoff at his most effusive, in an exquisite score brimming with his trademark soaring melodies. Sir Bryn Terfel is Pushkin’s Romantic hero, a tormented victim of passion with a knife at the ready for any wrong-doing. He has turned his back on the ordinary world to be with Zemfira who breaks him. The blood-drenched show-down presents a side of Bryn that is rarely – if ever – seen. n marked contrast, Bryn is Puccini’s comic trick...