1/ Let Pav & Jimmy give you a verismo treat. Srs q: have any operas about French Rev gone mainstream other than this and DIALOGUES? And neither is particularly sympathetic to it, tho CHENIER, like Dickens’s “Tof2C,” acknowledges the problematic framework out of which it arose.
https://twitter.com/MetOpera/status/1387527308240637953
2/ Safe bet that Pav will rule. Maria Guleghina will be an edgier Maddalena than the classics, Tebaldi & Milanov. (Many ruffled feathers recently on Opera-L over Tebaldi’s vs Callas’s history w this role.)
3/ Baritone Juan Pons, our Carlo Gerard, was always reliable, but maybe two sandwiches short of a mellifluous voice. Beloved bass Paul Plishka takes Fernando Corena’a old role as “le Sans-Culottes Matthieu.” (Sans-culottes did not mean “no pants,” despite what you may have
4/ heard about “the southern part of France.” It means with ankle-length trousers instead of knee-britches.) Venerable character tenor Michel Sénéchal takes Alessio de Paolis’s old role as “L’Incredibile the Spy.”
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