When Giuseppe Filianoti isn’t busy being one of the world’s more versatile tenors, he plays detective.
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It was while attending a performance of Fédora in Naples in 1885 that eighteen year-old Umberto Giordano fell in love with Sardou’s then immensely popular play; the protagonist was none other than Sarah Bernhardt, the creator of the title role. He immediately asked the French dramatist to sell him the rights, a request Sardou did…
Following the jump, snippets of all the tracks on the new “Verismo” album, as performed by America’s Soprano.