Watch the Met’s new Tosca attempt the big jump
OperaThe Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit:
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A little understandable fear there. That’s not a small jump! And I’m sure the Met doesn’t want to damage its reigning Prima Donna for the next decade.
“Foghorn” Davidsen….
Am excited to be hearing her next week along with Freddie de Tomasso and the wonderful Quinn Kelsey. Not a bad cast and I wonder if YNS will try his Stokowski style orchestra seating arrangement again……..
I personally don’t like to see how the sausage is made. With all of the behind the curtain antics the Met does, it ceases to allow the audience to suspend disbelief. It breaks the fourth wall, which ultimately diminishes a work of art.
I heard Freddie de Tomasso in Santa Monica 2 weeks ago in a concert with Angela Gheorghiu. He sang loud and crude like Lando Bartolini but he could also be soft and refined when he chose to (not very often). La Gheorghiu sadly was over the hill although her middle register at moderate dynamic levels still sounded gorgeous. Their pianist Vincenzo Scalera was fantastic! Concert highlights were newly-discovered Puccini songs, one being a tenor song with same melody as Mimi’s act 3 aria in Boheme.
If she jumps like that she risks breaking an ankle. Who’s the understudy?
A good voice and choice for Wagner roles but not for Puccini. I watched her “Vissi d’arte” on youtube and it is more shouting than actual singing..she’s only 37 and already has a disturbing tremolo mainly noticeable when she’s only accompanied by piano..I fear she will join the “too much too soon” club.
I heard her sing Vissi D’Arte live with piano as an encore at her Met recital last year and heard none of what you describe. Definitely no shouting.
When I worked at the Met I remember Anna Netrebko shriek, “I’m scared” right before she took the same leap. It’s an accident waiting to happen.
She needs to put more oomph into that than merely stepping off.
A well-timed swing of the arms AS IF she was hurling herself would probably be enough to sell it.
A funny addition to this stunt would be to have a stagehand toss up a bucket of dust and maybe a chicken or two after she lands.