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Theory of revolution
[…] on to Carlo Bergonzi, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Since then, it’s become rarer and rarer. Performances of the 1954 Met production became less frequent to the point that when it was last dragged on stage more than 20 years later, it was literally falling apart. My most memorable performance was in Budapest in 2007 starring Attila Fekete, one of my favorite tenors in the Verdi and verismo repertoire, along with Eva Bátori and Mihály Kálmándi. In an opera where there always seem to be at least one weak link (my most recent viewing, a Bregenzer Festspiele performance in 2011, had blazing performances from Roy Cornelius Smith and Ángeles Blancas Gulín, but a Gérard who vocally and dramatically had no business in a leading dramatic baritone role), the Budapest cast was equally talented and balanced (despite the Madelon of Lívia Budai, who bolted from the USA after four Azucenas in […]
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