Nino Machaidze as Gilda and Pene Pati as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Fall brings another appearance in Rigoletto with Lyric Opera Chicago, and Quinn Kelsey ends 2017 with a debut performance as Peter in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel for the Metropolitan Opera under Sir Donald Runnicles. In the first of two debuts scheduled for this August, he appears in concert productions of Aïda with Chorégies d’Orange, and Thaïs with the Melbourne Symphony conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. His boorish, tortured performance, together with a voice rich and secure from bottom to high top, is incomparable.” Earlier this season, Mr Kelsey appeared in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s Il Trovatore at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in a new production of Rigoletto for Oper Frankfurt. Quinn Kelsey’s 2014 performance as Rigoletto for English National Opera, drew the following comment from The Guardian/Observer: “While his music explodes with all too human anguish, his brutal nature, superbly portrayed by the Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey, is repellent. Unfortunately for Rigoletto – who has spent his life manipulating others and taking pleasure from their discomfort – his plans go dreadfully awry, and his beloved daughter is killed instead, the result of his own scheming – or perhaps the partial fulfillment of Monterone’s curse. Rigoletto ultimately finds out about this relationship, and – haunted by Monterone’s curse – plots to have the Duke murdered by Sparafucile, a local innkeeper who offers to do the dirty deed for him. Rigoletto, though, has his own daughter, Gilda, whom he tries to keep hidden from the court, but the Duke and Gilda eventually meet – he vows to have his way with her, and she – being completely smitten with him – puts up no objections. March 30, April 2, 5 and 7 at the Civic Theatre.Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto and Nino Machaidze as Gilda in Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Other debuts include tenor Robert Watson as Carmen’s vengeful lover Don José, baritone Scott Connor as bullfighter Escamillo and soprano Sarah Tucker as Don José’s discarded love, Micaëla. Italian-American mezzo Ginger Costa-Jackson makes her company debut in the title role.
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“Carmen” by Georges BizetĪlthough a distilled, small-cast version of the dark tragedy (“The Tragedy of Carmen”) was done last year as part of the company’s Detour series, the full grand opera version returns in a production rented from Atlanta Opera.
March 8, 9 and 10 at Patrick Henry High School’s PHAME Theatre. Von Stade and Clayton reprise the roles they played in the piece’s 2008 premiere at Houston Grand Opera.
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The Detour series continues with this chamber opera starring famed mezzo Frederica von Stade as an aging Broadway actress estranged over the course of 20 years from her two adult children, played by soprano Kristin Clayton and baritone Steven LaBrie. The traditional period production is newly purchased from Seattle Opera. Scott Quinn debuts as the Duke, whose bar ditty “La donne è mobile” is one of the most famous tenor arias in all opera.
Coloratura soprano Alisa Jordheim makes her company debut as Rigoletto’s naive daughter, Gilda. Last seen here in 2009, Verdi’s 1851 tragedy will star baritone Stephen Powell as Rigoletto, a court jester who plays a horrific price for humiliating his Duke’s courtiers.
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