festive future
La Cieca hears that Angela Meade, triumphant in this summer’s Semiramide at Caramoor, has been invited back there in 2010 for her first Norma. Other future dates include Les Vêpres siciliennes in Vienna and a return engagement at the Met in Ernani. On the bill at Caramoor for 2011: that grandest of all grand operas, Guilliame Tell.
Update: Caramoor maestro Will “The Trill” Crutchfield just chimed in:
Semiramide was only a first hint of what this gal can do. Everybody should come next year and hold me accountable if I’m wrong. She hasn’t yet tapped her full capacities, but she will.
I smell a troll…
I think ‘luxurious’ voice is a brilliant term. Of the younger generation US sopranos, I suspect Eglise Gutierrez and Ailyn Perez have luxury potential.
Meade, Perez, Gutierrez — all graduates of the Academy of Vocal Arts.
The AVA seems to do excellent work. Tenorial Messrs Costello, Valenti and Fabiano also connected with it, aren’t they?
I am kind of neutral about Meade – I recognize that she has an ample, pretty (rather than beautiful or impressive in some other way) voice with a solid technique but I find her tone to be rather ordinary and her range of colors monochromatic – a rather American, white bread type of sound.
I hope that as she matures she will continue to grow because we could always use more dramatic coloraturas!
Again I do not mean to detract from her talent or accomplishment but to date I have found her competent but not particularly interesting.
I wouldn’t particularly buy a ticket to hear her but her name on a cast list wouldn’t keep me at home if it were something I wanted to hear.
Those whom the Gods will destroy, they first make mad. She’ll be another Villazon, burning out a useful gift far too young by singing roles for which she isn’t ready. The Semiramide was interesting; it was no kind of triumph. (She didn’t even warm up till the final scene of Act I.) The debut Elvira was frankly not good, though permissible in a last-minute debut.
Look at the guns on her!
She’s had a modest success at a minor league summer festival. Let’s not go and make this anything more than it is.
WELL..this gives me some reason to hang on, until the Summer of 2011, ..at least…!
As The MET. or any other Company in NYC seems unable , or unwilling to put on “Guilliame Tell”
(I last saw a production at San Francisco Opera, about 10 some odd years ago, which really hooked me on this work…), I am very much looking forward to hearing it, at Caramoor, in 2 seasons from now…..
You people are all hilarious.