Last-minute jump-in at Berlin Phil
OrchestrasThe US tenor Brandon Jovanovic dropped out late from last night’s Walküre Act1, conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Baden-Baden Festival.
His luxury replacement was local favourite Klaus Florian Vogt.
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Why is this even news? Jump-ins happen every night across the German-speaking opera houses. No cover system means that it’s standard practice to fly someone in.
The cast change was announcrd two days prior. Hardly last minute.
I heard Domingo in Met “Walkure” he was great. Their loss.
“luxury” lol
At least Brandon sings as if he has a pair.
“Ooh, you are awful… but I like you!”
I actually spoke to Maestro Levine at Pedelson’s one afternoon *many* years ago about that. I noted KFV was an interesting choice, as I had not heard him before. He reminded me in Wagner’s original time, the tenors chosen to sing that rep were not so steely voiced as they are cast today. He was double cast with Heppner. His take was KFVs voice was closer to what Wagner himself may have wanted back in the day.