"Potent charm." – Minneapolis Star Tribune

photo credit: Susan Hanlon

"The dancing is just right. There's sheer delight in her Charleston with Zsupan, along with a graceful evocation of Fred and Ginger in her duet with Tassilo. Our Countess, Norah Long, captures shrewdly the character's delight in returning home; it's a great opening scene. After her imperiousness as the story unfolds, there's a sweetness at the end, as if she's really learned something, and she sings well. …a success, one of North Star's best efforts in recent years."
                                      - Michael Anthony, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Countess Maritza by Emerich Kalman
North Star Opera, St. Paul MN
Director: Ben Krywosz
[view photo gallery]                                            Music Director: Steve Stucki
[return to performance archive]                                                    Role: Maritza