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Franco Vassallo (right) will sing the role of Ezio in the last three performances of Attila at the Met (March 19, 22, and 27).
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Interesting. I encountered Mr. Vassallo in the Saturday matinee of Barbiere on Halloween. He seemed a more-than-acceptable Figaro in most respects, not one for the ages, EXCEPT that I have never before heard any Figaro dash off the divisions with such velocity and accuracy. (If he was aspirating them it was certainly neat and unobtrusive.) If Ezio has demands of that sort he’ll be all over them.
Look at that cheap, ugly, absurd, insulting excuse for a set for Lucrezia Borgia. Say what you will about the recent wild-and-woolly production from Washington, at least it was amusing. What’s pictured here is a scandal.
Good news for Vassallo, though I won’t be revisiting Attila. Once was quite enough.
You can judge a whole production based on one still photo? Impressive intuition. I haven’t seen this production pictured, but since it’s apparently maybe I should watch it and decide.
Also, this photo reminds me how in the new Attila the Ezio-Foresto stuff suddenly became strangely touchy-feely in Act 3 (I think?) after a prologue and two acts of park and bark.
oops, sorry, and I was so proud of my attempt to make a link! but it still works.
It was as Ezio that I first heard Mr. Vassallo on a CD of a live performance from Sardinia in 1999. Tiziana Fabbricini, somewhat shredded of voice but performing excitingly hell-bent-for-leather; Marco Berti, sobbing way too much but singing pretty well; and Simone Alaimo, very commanding as Attila were also in the cast. Vassallo sounded like a real comer. My ticket for the MET’s production is for one of the Vassallo performances.
Boys’ shorts!
I like the tenor!
His voice or his legs?