Duet to me one more time
Patrick Mack reviews yet another Puccini album from Jonas Kaufmann
55 pieces since 2013 — in 18 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
6 pieces as Tosca — stats above show all coverage for Sonya Yoncheva.
View allPatrick Mack reviews yet another Puccini album from Jonas Kaufmann
In the last weeks of January, as the Metropolitan Opera season wound to a close (prior to the winter hiatus) two striking sopranos were thrust into the limelight.
Though orchestrally lavish, this “semi-staging” delivers less theater than no staging at all.
A Met HD cinema broadcast of Puccini’s Tosca on Saturday, 27 January, concluded the first run of a production marked by upheaval in the ten months between its announcement and its New Year’s Eve premiere.
The more ignorant segments of the public and the critical establishment continue to shout praise to David McVicar‘s torpid Tosca as the greatest triumph of the reactionary since the Bourbon Restoration.
The Met got exactly what it asked for: a safely opulent, resolutely unchallenging Tosca that was far from shabby or little but couldn’t have been less shocking
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