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When I saw Elena Roger and heard a sample of her singing last January at the press conference announcing this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, she struck me as a delightful breath of fresh air in the popular music world - a refreshing vocal spirit, albeit on a somewhat diminutive scale, since she's certainly 'petite'. Fortunately, her stature doesn't prevent her voice being extremely powerful, and when required, melodically haunting too. And judging by her performance as Eva Perón tonight and the audience's enthusiastic reception, she's confirmed my first impressions, pulling-off something of her own musical 'coup' in the opening nights of this show.
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Philip Quast, as Perón, has a fine singing voice and easily compensates for Roger's lack of height, in fact almost dwarfing her on some occasions. Yet as a couple they seemed to dovetail well, rather than appearing ludicrously comic.
