Rest assured, Jonas Kaufmann sang tonight

Rest assured, Jonas Kaufmann sang tonight

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norman lebrecht

March 21, 2019

We hear from friends in the Covent Garden audience that he sang in Forza, opposite Netrebko.

Let us know if you were there.

Comments

  • sycorax says:

    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.

  • C_Porumbescu says:

    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.

  • Viola da Bracchio says:

    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.

  • Lydia Wahlberg says:

    Any reason given. Oh, big guys like him don’t have to give a reason.

  • Philippa Ballard says:

    See the Alex cartoon of 21-Mar re: price of tickets 😉

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/alex/

    • Lesley C Hendrickson says:

      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.

  • Emil says:

    But SD went on DEFCON-1 over a missed dress rehearsal.

    • Viola da Bracchio says:

      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.

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