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1/ One of the pinnacles of Bel Canto comedy, and a contender for laurels across all comedy. And a great cast: pretty mezzo Isabel Leonard is just what Rossini wanted for Rosina, or if she’s not, shd be. Away (from the this role) with pipey coloratura sopranos, and likewise with
2/ mezzos whose chest voice comes up to their eyebrows (lookin’ at you, Jackie: sorry). I saw Lawrence Brownlee’s Rossini Almaviva @vaopera, and a year later he was singing it @MetOpera. Good: that’s what @vaopera is supposed to do. I thought Christopher Maltman was miscast as
3/ Mozart’s Don Alfonso, but he’ll be just right for Rossini’s Figaro.
Mind, I don’t know what this has to do with the season as I understand it; no doubt others understand it as as simply the “have fun” season. Well, if you’ve finished your last errand to the stores where they
Mind, I don’t know what this has to do with the season as I understand it; no doubt others understand it as as simply the “have fun” season. Well, if you’ve finished your last errand to the stores where they
