“What happens when that music no longer comes easily, or when the public’s attention shifts elsewhere? These are questions for any great singer, including Ms. Malfitano, now in her 70s and her days as a reigning Tosca behind her. So here she is, a fictionalized version of herself, relishing the glories of the past yet also tortured by neuroses that recall Maria Callas and Norma Desmond, with the fiercely widened eyes to match,” writes the ineffable Josh Barone in the New York Times. (Photo: Jean Louis Fernandez)
Ardent Angel Blue will jump into performances vacated by the collapsible Sonya Yoncheva, singing Violetta at La Scala March 12-17. (Photo: ROH | Catherine Ashmore)
Angel Blue in the role of Violetta proves the old adage that New York has neon, Berlin has bars, but, ah! Parigi! Read more »
Grand Prix winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, soprano Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall, with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina, for a recital in Stern Auditorium/Perlman Stage on Friday, November 1, 2019, at 8:00 pm. Her program will feature art songs by such Russian masters as Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev coupled with those by Hahn and Fauré set against a backdrop of arias by Verdi and Donizetti.
At the center of the Met’s revival of Puccini’s La bohème, one found the rich and layered talent of Angel Blue.
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