EMILIA DI LIVERPOOL

Emilia di Liverpool, St George’s Hall, Liverpool
By George Hall
Published: January 3 2008 17:43 With the official launch of Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008 set for January 11, events are already taking place, including this staging of a Donizetti rarity. A rarity, that is, except in Liverpool, where a concert performance was organised in 1957 to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the granting of the city’s charter (Joan Sutherland sang the title role in a subsequent BBC relay), followed by a further production 30 years later.