Marcello Orselli

Later this month Meade takes on Turandot for the first time at the Met. The American soprano’s repertoire has lately expanded beyond Verdi and bel canto to include not only Puccini’s icy princess but Wagner’s Sieglinde and Strauss’s Chrysothemis. Her husband had a smashing local breakout recently with two title roles, first at Carnegie Hall as Strauss’s Guntram, then as Smetana’s Dalibor at Bard College’s annual Summerscape.

While his wife is quizzing Michael Fabiano at the Met, Myers will be juggling performances in Germany as Florestan in Fidelio and the Prinz in The Love for Three Oranges. Next year the couple reunites at the Paris Opéra where Meade will be tempted to cheat on Ludovic Tézier or Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar in Un Ballo in Maschera, while Myers becomes Nixon in China’s Mao Tse-Tung with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson as the presidential pair, roles they will repeat in concert excerpts for the Boston Symphony in April.

Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, “Kränze winden wir fremder Hochzeit”

Angela Meade
John Matthew Myers

Conductor: Michael Zlabinger
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
9 April 2025
Broadcast