Here's a real operatic mezzo-soprano with a heck of a great dramatic voice. Opera Chic today breaks the story that Kate Aldrich from Maine will be opening next season at La Scala Milan in a new production of Carmen.
Her website has some super audio clips - try the gorgeously tragic Chausson Chanson Perpetuelle. When I looked Kate up on YouTube I found two clips, one featuring a ghastly Donizetti duet with an even ghastlier tenor, the other featuring decent music (Benvenuto Cellini) but one of the weirdest productions I've ever seen. She is absolutely terrific in both, but...well, you just have to see this thing. Fasten your seatbelts.
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She is very fine indeed. There is actually more of her on YouTube, Jessica: clips with Alagna in Verdi and Donizetti; with Daniela Dessi in 'Miro,o Norma' and another aria from Norma; some Handel, and she appears in other clips passim. I'm assuming here that the ghastly tenor is the one in the clips from the Torino 'Lucrezia', for ghastly he is. There are also clips of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle from Washington, Bocelli the tenor, Domingo conducting (sort of), which is actually a very big mess indeed. I've heard her before, but, even so, I found myself periodically closing my eyes during the Cellini clip -- I was so busy trying to figure out what the hell was going on there that it simply distracted me from the singing.
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Jessica,
Does this mean her Don José will be
Herr Kaufmann? Someone, somewhere is
listing him for the December '09 Scala Carmen...now that would be a great Advent treat!
Mahalo for your blogging. Aloha
I believe so...our friend Opera Chic, who has her finger well on the Scala pulse, does indeed report this. And as if that wasn't enough, Escamillo will be Erwin Schrott!! Mamma mia!!
Oh yeah, and Barenboim's conducting.
I am looking for flights.
Jessica, what we need to look for are ways of getting tickets ;-) But I think she is a good choice, many names got thrown around, but the 3 i am sure will make a gorgeous triangle.
And i always wanted to listen to Benvenuto Cellini, need to get my hands on a recording, do you know a good one to recommend? Thanks!!!
Hariclea, I admit that though I share Berlioz's birthday I can't claim to be an expert on every existing recording of Benvenuto Cellini. However, if I was buying one now I would probably get the one on LSO Live conducted by Sir Colin Davis. You can order it from Amazon here
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