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Angela Gheorghiu will replace Krassimira Stoyanova for a single Met performance of Traviata on Saturday, March 24.
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22 January 2007
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15 Comments:
Well, that's nice of her. I might actually try to go see that one, given how fantastic she was last year. It's probably the best role she sings.
I wonder what the story behind this is.....
I'm booking the tickets to NYC right this minute.
let's see, Mr. gheorghou loses contract at La Scala, Madame cancels a run of Don Carlos at Covent Garden. maybe cash is short and Stroyanova got an offer to do a recital or concert somewhere?
this certainly is a wonderful surprise....too bad it's not a weekday so that i can actually afford the tickets close enough to the stage to hear her.
i can't believe she was ever going to do elisabetta lol.
I wonder if this is a Gelb thing -- bring in a star for a cancellation. He seems to seize every opportunity to create buzz (and good on him). Since Gherghiou is one of his "house stars", why not? She's probably the best Violetta in the world right now.
Did everyone see that Scotto will direct Gheorghiu as Mimi at Lyric next season? I want in on the rehearsals!
Good for Angela, but Stoyanova has one of the most beautiful voices I've heard in years.
She was a wonderful Desdémona last year in Barcelona (with José Cura, released in dvd)
Well, Stoyanova is still singing quite a few performances, so we can have our cake and eat it too!!
Gheorghiu is scheduled to do a concert in Miami on March 23rd at the Performing Arts Center which is a short flight away. She certainly does not need to rehearse for La Traviata.
Parterrians may be interested in the 2007/8 season SFO announced today.
Samson and Delilah (Clifton Forbis/Olga Borodina)
Tannhäuser (Peter Seiffert/Petra Maria Schnitzer/Petra Lang)
World premiere of Appomattox by Philip Glass (Dwayne Croft as Robert E. Lee)
Magic Flute (Rebecca Evans/Erika Miklósa/Piotr Beczala/Christopher Maltman)
La Rondine (Angela Gheorghiu/Misha Didyk)
Macbeth (Thomas Hampson/Doina Dimitriu)
The Rake's Progress (William Burden/Laura Aikin/Denyce Graves/James Morris)
West Coast premiere of The Little Prince by Rachel Portman (cast TBA)
Das Rheingold (Zambello production from WNO. Mark Delavan/Richard Paul Fink/Jennifer Larmore/Jill Grove/Runnicles conducting)
Ariodante (Susan Graham/Ruth Ann Swenson/Ewa Podleś)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Natalie Dessay/Giuseppe Filianoti)
Not overwhelming, but interesting enough, I guess. Dessay, Gheorghiu, Podleś at least offset Hampson as Macbeth. And maybe Burden will take his shirt off.
Okay, so that means if I get into the San Francisco Conservatory, I am definetly going. What a season. Hamina Hamina Hamina.
Speaking of the Litte Prince, am I the only one who really loves that opera. It's just so unabashedly lyrical. Here's hoping San Francisco gets Teddy Tahu Rhodes for the Pilot
I'm delighted -- it's a date I can cross off my list. I couldn't decided whether to go to one Traviata with Stoyanova or two, and this will make it easier to get into all of them. I was out of the country when she made her Met debut in this role in 2001, and everyone who saw it was knocked out (in the good sense). I assume the Met will pay her for the evening anyway, and she always has the Wiener Staatsoper to fall back on.
The real question is will she really be singing Violetta the day AFTER she is to sing a solo recital in Florida?
http://www.concertfla.org/Angela.html
Just an update, Gheorghiu cancelled the recital in Miami! It is a big blow for Judy Drucker because it was also going to raise funds. Guess the MET comes first!
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