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La Cieca hears that Glimmerglass Opera is about to announce the name of its next General Director. Shockingly, it’s neither an actual Brit nor someone currently associated with NYCO, ya know.
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Alexei Steblianko was Bezukhov. The program says that he joined the Kirov in 1976 and he indeed sounds old. Imagine a very old Heppner cracking again and again. And it’s a long role.
Hard to keep track of who was who. Kutuzov wasn’t totally bad but I kept hoping for Sam Ramey, huge wobble and all. At least Ramey brough some real presence to the role.
Steblianko was a force to be reckoned with 20+ years ago. I think it was as Herman that I saw him when the Kirov/Maryinsky visited London, a visit that also introduced Leiferkus, who was superb as Tomsky and (I think) Onegin.
I believe Steblianko is the tenor in the clip, which I have posted before recently, but any excuse …