Dancing at the edge of the world
Puccini’s schmaltziest, most melodic, most dramatically limp, most cynical, most obscure mature work
43 pieces since 2014 — in 17 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
2 pieces as Magda — stats above show all coverage for Angel Blue.
View allPuccini’s schmaltziest, most melodic, most dramatically limp, most cynical, most obscure mature work
Next week Puccini’s La Rondine returns to the Met for the first time in eleven years, so Chris’s Cache offers three quite diverse sopranos as Magda: Ljuba Welitsch, Virginia Zeani, and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs.
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