paging albert da costa?
La Cieca hears that the Met is skedding tenor (erstwhile baritone) Gary Lehman for a Tristan staging rehearsal tomorrow. As La Cieca understands it, Lehman is a formal cover for the role (after John Mac Master) and so . . . well, just about anything may happen on Friday night. And thereafter, actually.
I saw Lehman’s first Parsifal (in LA) as a last-minute replacement for Placido. And, you know, he did pretty well.
Who is Voigt’s cover for Isolde??
Lehman? .. Zo has unsere teuere Lotte returned to us? (Though slightly misspelt)
I am seeing & hearing the Tristan on Friday night. Gosh, I hope some one is going to sing Tristan. It would be nice. Bel Canto Tenors are at a premium, but Heldentenors seem to be non existant.
The production leaves me cold. Saw it a couple years ago with Eaglen…OY Let us hope that whoever they put in can cut the mustard……
I forgot to say that I am doing a novena that Ben Heppner will be well, but I kinda got my doubts
What’s Peter Seiffert up to this week?
Covers are:
Voigt/Janice Baird
de Young/Margaret Jane Wray
Heppner/Gary Lehman (John MacMaster?)
Schulte/Richard Paul Fink
Salminen/Gregory Reinhardt
Geartner/Luis Otey
etc.
WHO???????????, why don’t we just cancel Tristan altogether and do something that someone can sing. Why not substitute SALOME with Voigt, the tenor is not as important there. five hours of tedium here we come, I have a ticket for the 25th, this could be a long evening
Really, just do another opera.
I went to a Forza once when the cancellations caused the MET to perform Tosca instead.
Remember the night in the early – 1970s I think it was – when they had scheduled ELEKTRA with Irene Dalis finally getting to do Klytamnestra and then all their Elektras were indisposed and they couldn’t find anyone so they put on FIDELIO with Christa Ludwig instead?