The voice of spring
“I come, I come! ye have called me long;
I come o’er the mountains, with light and song”
9 pieces since 2015 — in 7 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
2 pieces as Yamadori — stats above show all coverage for Jeongcheol Cha.
View all“I come, I come! ye have called me long;
I come o’er the mountains, with light and song”
“The mystery of her voice gripped my soul,” Sharpless tells Pinkerton at the beginning of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. One could say the same thing of Aleksandra Kurzak’s remarkable portrayal of the title role, the main reason to catch the Met’s latest revival.
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