Color my world
San Francisco Opera has unveiled a brand-new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s warhorse classic La traviata, the first “to be built in San Francisco Opera’s scene and costume shops in 35 years.”
Jonathan Tetelman
12 pieces since 2016 — in 8 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
12
pieces
8
roles
6
companies
11
years
By role
Role Alfredo
Role Don José
It takes a woman
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
Role Duke of Mantua
Rigoletto on the fringe
Tanglewood may bring the classical music crowd to Lenox, but for opera, it’s all about neighboring Pittsfield, Mass.
Role Eisenstein
Drunk in love
According to my taste, Die Fledermaus is an intoxicating opera
Role Lt. Pinkerton
Star of the shoji screen
My vision may have been slightly blurry at the end.
Role Pinkerton
The voice of spring
“I come, I come! ye have called me long;
I come o’er the mountains, with light and song”
Role Rodolfo
O sofa fanciulla
Winsome, tony, and studded with overbooked bistros, Tanglewood is not exactly crawling with bohemians these days.
Role Ruggero
Dancing at the edge of the world
Puccini’s schmaltziest, most melodic, most dramatically limp, most cynical, most obscure mature work
Spit or swallow
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.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).