Hoping to speed up the arrival of spring, parterre box coaxes you to Michael Spyres‘s blazing pira with an in-house sampling of his Manrico from last fall’s Il trovatore in Houston.
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Parterre Box
Michael Bishop
Manrico was the protean baritenor’s only Verdi role in 2024 in a year that otherwise included Lohengrin, Don José, and the title role in Pfitzner‘s Palestrina. While Spyres’s focus for 2025-26 is on Wagner rather than Verdi — including Siegmund and Walther at Bayreuth as well as Tristan at the Met in the spring — one has to wonder if Verdi’s Otello (he already sang Rossini’s) can be far off?
Topics: exclusive, houston grand opera, michael spyres
People: Michael Spyres
Works: Il trovatore
Places & Organizations: Houston Opera
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