‘In an opera where the chorus has beautiful and lively interventions, the Coro Titular del Teatro Real has once again done an excellent job. José Luis Basso’s ensemble starts strongly in their first performance, which begins offstage, moulding their powerful voices to the almost mystical music. However, it is in the fourth scene that they make an intervention to remember. As connoisseurs of this work know, the first choral number begins with a beautiful, brief solo introduction by a tenor, presumed to be the foreman, answered by the peasants. Two tenors alternate in that small role, and tonight it was sung by Alexander González, a tenor with a beautifully lyrical voice’.
