By Rupert Christiansen [The Telegraph, 23 August 2010]

'She’s Mother Earth, she’s a schoolmarm, she’s a romantic, she’s a tough cookie, and she runs a mean saloon bar.” Susan Bullock is waxing lyrical about Minnie, the heroine of Puccini’s glorious Gold Rush opera La fanciulla del West - a role she takes on for the first time at Scottish Opera’s concert performance in the Usher Hall tonight.