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La Cieca has just learned that Salvatore Licitra has withdrawn “for personal reasons” from the Met’s new Trovatore, which opens February 16, 2009. Marcelo Ãlvarez will be Manrico instead, which means he (Ãlvarez) will cancel Adriana Lecouvreur, which opens on February 6. The replacement Maurizio will be announced at a later date once the hysterical sobbing from the Met’s casting office has subsided.
Any way we can get rid of both of them and bring a real tenor to sing both Manrico and Maurizio? We need Palombi to take over one or both of those assignments.
Can we get giant pictures of Hvorostovsky now instead?
I saw the blurb out front and was coming here to rant because the Met has not engaged Palombi. I see I’ve been beat.
Is there any chance that this means Licitra will also bow out of the LA Opera’s upcoming “Tabarro?” next month? Please, oh please, God; let it be so.
Fifty bucks says Jonas Kaufmann will be the replacement Maurizio.
Leper: Not that I feel any great need to go to bat for Licitra here, but he’s actually quite good in Tabarro.
Until he gets to those high notes where he loses proper support and resorts to shouting. What a waste of a great voice.
I heard Alvarez several years ago as Edgardo opposite Swenson. I know that he’s singing progressively heavier rep but don’t know how he sounds nowadays. His Edgardo was quite lovely.
I agree that Palombi should be sining at the Met. He’s not amazing but he’s a real lirico-spinto tenor.
I actually like the idea of Kauffman as Maurizio.
You cannot be serious about Palombi, did ou really hear his beyond mediocre Radames at La Scala or recent Seattle one? Also I doubt that Jonas Kaufmann could cancel his Vienna Manon, Berlin Tosca and entire run of Romeo at La Fenice scheduled at the same time as Adriana; plus he does not know the role. More than probably the MET will get stuck with Fabio Armiliato, Fraccaro, Berti, Giuliacci, Ventre or Antonenko(which almost equals Palombi).
Sad that we cann
it cut prevoiusly off:
Sad that we cannot even come up with a more adequate Manrico or Maurizio.
Massimo Giordano could be a decent Maurizio ( a role he does not know yet), his early January two Tosca’s in Berlin could be resolved; but the harder obstacle is his role debut as Don Jose scheduled in Berlin for March. But since he is free in February
Zemsky & Green may “figure it out”.