Covent Garden has named the Spanish tenor Ismael Jordi to sing Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor this summer.
He replaces the Italian star Vittorio Grigolo (pic), who was fired for being too handy around the place.
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Jordi is almost inaudible, even by today’s standard of tiny-voiced crooners. If the orchestra plays at any volume above mezzoforte he will be eaten alive.
As long as he is PC then he can sing. Patrons may not show up, but all the snowflakes can feel safe singing to an empty house.
That wasn’t my experience of him when I heard him as Edgardo on opening night of the Bilbao opera season in October. He was superb. Honestly, a revelation. But admittedly I was sitting close.
I heard him some years ago – I think it was Faust – and yes he is very elegant and stylish but I had to strain to hear him at all. I was in the front balcony of a not very big house (Amsterdam).
Chi mi frena in tal momento?
As long as it is not Grigolo!