“In order to describe Olga Jelinková as Cleopatra, one cannot avoid looking at her in her nonchalantly casual, erotically lascivious and childishly naïve play with the cinematic heroines Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. If her playing effortlessly stands up to any comparison, her silvery soprano shimmers and shimmers in a league of its own. Her aria Pangero, in which she tearfully mourns her departure from the world if the gods will not help her, is a lesson in vocal art in expression and style. The gods cannot refuse such a request. If only for a short period of time.
In a duet with Mynenko, the two express this hope with wonderful timbre. At the same time, they know that they are finite. They extinguish the candlelight. A great evening, which cannot be praised enough in its overall coherence, is celebrated by the audience with thunderous applause.”
