For the Summer or Forever?

Rosina (Katie Bray) has just heard a voice serenading her – it was Count Almaviva disguised as Lindoro. She vows to pursue her romantic desires and anticipates that he will be hers.

Figaro (Luthando Qave) and Almaviva (Konu Kim) break into the house via the balcony. Rosina (Dara Savinova) refuses to leave until she learns that Lindoro is actually Count Almaviva himself. Their happiness is such that Figaro has the greatest difficulty in persuading them to escape.

Fricka (Madeleine Shaw), wife of Wotan and Goddess of Marriage, is outraged by Wotan’s infidelity and the incestuous behaviour of Siegmund and Sieglinde. On Fricka’s demand, Wotan must order Brünnhilde to let Siegmund fall in the battle.

Anezka (Veronika Rovná) does not allow herself to be happy again after her husband’s passing, but she does not want Ladislav to be with Karolina either.

‘Sleep, sweet angel, sleep tight... but your mother is sleeping in a grave!’

Veronika Rovná sings Vendulka's lullaby from Smetana's opera The Kiss.

Leonore (Jacquelyn Wagner) curses Pizarro’s (Nicholas Brownlee) evil deeds with fury. She prays for triumph and feels her body filled with the courage and strength of love. Leonore vows to free her husband at all costs from this unjust imprisonment.