Opera: Bit of a song and dance DIVA ON THE VERGE PEACOCK THEATRE LONDON

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 10, 1999| Author: David Bendict | Copyright information

SHE'S DISCOVERED casually stretched out across a grand piano, in the manner beloved of Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys. This is not, you swiftly realise, your average evening with a diva.

Hardly surprising when you consider that Julia Migenes's early career included playing in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof, and the fact that she really made it big in movies (albeit singing), when she starred as a highly convincing Carmen in the successful film of ...