Music - COLORaturas **½

According to the publicity, Diana Damrau is one of the top Coloratura sopranos around today - but you wouldn't have known that from listening to this disc.

There is a harsh quality to her voice, unsuitable to the more "lyric" selections and also obtrusive in her florid singing. Technically, she is well capable of singing these arias - the notes are all there, but that alone is not enough.