About noon the Sarasota Opera learned that the tenor scheduled to sing that evening’s concert of Verdi rarities had begged off. In another company this defection might have caused severe dismay, but Sarasota has a reserve of fine singers ready and willing. So Michael Hendrick sat down with a score of Verdi’s Hymn of the Nations and, a few hours later, could perform it with clarion panache.

The Financial Times