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2014-12-11 16:56:36
Moon and stars
One of the major complaints about the five year casting system (as well as the shared productions by different companies) is that operatic events are rarely surprises anymore. You thought Diva So-and-So and Divo This-and-That were great in Composer X’s “________”? Well, prepare to see them in that exact same opera and exact same production in London. And New York. And Munich. And Vienna. And so on and so forth. As I’ve said previously, La Bohéme is an opera that’s proved stubbornly difficult to shoehorn into the five-year casting/director/production syndrome. Casting is often filled on a rolling basis, and whoever is available can drop in for a trip to the garret. But this season of Bohémes at the Met has to be unrivaled in terms of non-stop cast-change advisories. On the Mimî side first-cast cycle Ekaterina Scherbachenko sang one performance and disappeared, and second-cast cycle Kristine Opolais chose Munich and […]
2014-09-25 18:21:24
[…] the past, and still have little hope for dramatic parts, but his excellence in comedy since then offers hope. Edo de Waart conducted some of the best Figaro performances that the last Met production had. [A bit of shuffling makes for two promising Americans as the Countess: Amanda Majeski, a real find for the roster, sings this month while 2010 Met Council winner Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her debut in the second run.] La Boheme Scherbachenko, Papatanasiu, Hymel, Kelsey, Lavrov, Soar, Maxwell / Frizza (September-early October) Opolais, Papatanasiu/Phillips, Vargas, Salsi, Arduini, Rose, Del Carlo / Frizza (November/early December) Gheorghiu, Phillips, Vargas, Salsi, Arduini, Rose, Del Carlo / Frizza (December 10/13) Opolais, Yoncheva, Borras, Kwiecien, Arduini, Soar, Del Carlo / Frizza (January) Wait... Gheorghiu is back!? (I still suspect her Mimi will be too much Musetta, but...) [January's tenor, originally TBA, is now Jean-François Borras who apparently subbed for Kaufmann in […]
2014-09-25 18:13:00
From the Met press office: Hei-Kyung Hong will sing the role of Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème on September 26 and 29, replacing Ekaterina Scherbachenko, who is ill. As previously announced, Hong also sings the role on October 4.I've never heard Hong in person, but on broadcasts she is a perfectly lovely singer with a beautiful voice. In a different world, she'd be a star, but somehow she has never hit the big time. The rest of the Boheme cast is not too shabby either!
2014-09-25 18:05:31
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