Below the belt
Three of the Met’s most cunning vocalists, Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato and Diana Damrau, wrap their tongues around the trio from Le Comte Ory.
Stéphane Degout
11 pieces since 2010 — in 7 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
11
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7
roles
5
companies
17
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2 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Stéphane Degout.
View allThe sea was angry that day, my friends
It’s a sad story, really. Debussy and Maeterlinck had what the kids would call Major Drama over who was to sing Melisande (Mary Garden vs. the person you’ve never heard of) and so Maeterlinck didn’t see Pelleas until years after Debussy had died, so he never got to be like “word!” or, I suppose, “mot!”