In this part, mezzo Jamie Barton revealed superb bel canto style, her singing ideally balanced between pinpoint control and runaway passion. In this romantic take on the last days of Anne Boleyn, sympathy fell paradoxically to the doomed queen’s antagonist, her rival Jane Seymour. Armiliato, again on the podium, mostly kept the performance taut. (Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera).Įven worse trimming damaged Donizetti’s Anna Bolena the following afternoon, though Mr. Marcelo Álvarez as Calàf and Christine Goerke in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot.
Armiliato’s shaky leadership and the cuts marring Verdi’s score. The virtuoso Met orchestra played with clarity and fervor despite Mr. The electricity of the evening seemed to inspire veteran mezzo Dolora Zajick, who’s been performing the role of the tormented Gypsy Azucena here since 1988, to sing with fresh gusto and power. Netrebko faded out her rich voice to a shimmering filigree. Finally, as her character died slowly of self-administered poison, Ms. Best of all, the soprano performed every note of the usually abbreviated cabaletta “Tu vedrai,” all flashing scales, crowned with a radiant high C. Her high pianissimo notes in “D’amor sull’ali rosee” glinted like moonlight, and her chest tones in the ensuing “Miserere” were like the cries of a wounded beast. Netrebko, beginning in slightly gooey voice, found her A game for the grueling final act of the role of Leonora, a Spanish noblewoman who falls in love with a Gypsy troubadour. Hvorostovsky’s return to the Met seemed to inspire the entire company to give the sort of white-hot performance opera fans dream of. Hvorostovsky, was alternating applauding her colleague with wiping away tears.īest of all, Mr. By this time, the opera’s leading lady, Anna Netrebko, a longtime friend of Mr. The cheers rattled the theater as the singer was suddenly pelted with dozens of long-stemmed white roses flung onto the stage by members of the Met orchestra. Hvorostovsky toward the footlights for an additional bow. But the biggest demonstration came at the very end of the evening, when Mr.
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