Rest assured, Jonas Kaufmann sang tonight
mainWe hear from friends in the Covent Garden audience that he sang in Forza, opposite Netrebko.
Let us know if you were there.
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A friend of ours was there and said she didn’t like the production in itself not much, but it was well done and she found especially Ms Netrebko rather great.
Very much so. At the curtain, a lady in a kimono hurled a bunch of red roses at him; it fell into the net covering the orchestra pit but he recovered it without missing a beat.
Frankly, no-one seriously doubted this would happen – although it will bleaken the day of the Windgassen Fan Club here, who believe that the only good singing happened in the era of wax cylinders.
Thank you for making me laugh at loud this morning. This certainly hits the nail on the head.
Any reason given. Oh, big guys like him don’t have to give a reason.
See the Alex cartoon of 21-Mar re: price of tickets 😉
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/alex/
Aaaaaagh! Used to work for a guy who loved to brag to me about scoring Glyndebourne tickets — because he knew that I loved opera and that I also knew he’d snooze thru it.
But SD went on DEFCON-1 over a missed dress rehearsal.
No dress rehearsal was ‘missed’. JK shares the role with Eyvazov in this production, and considering Kauffman was singing the opening night, it made sense fot Eyvazov to sing the DR.