Sondra Radvanovsky drops a role
mainShe has told Munich she won’t sing Elisabetta again in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux.
Her replacement next March will be the veteran Edita Gruberova. She’s not dropping anything.
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From bad to decidedly worse (the worst, actually). What are they thinking?
LOL I wholeheartly agree with you.
^ Haha. When I saw that there was only one comment (so far) on this post, I knew who it would be from and what it would say. LOL.
La Radvan was due for two perfs only: March 17 + 20.
Grubie adds those to her March 23 + 27 commitments.
I think that this situation requires some clarification, but I am not sure who could provide it.
Did Ms.Rad simply cancel the two performances in Munich, or has she indeed dropped the role from her active repertoire?
She just recently had a huge success in the role at the San Francisco Opera, and it would surprise me if has in fact dropped the role altogether.
She will not sing this part (like Norma) again. She was overwhelmed in San Francisco. Gruberová has contract for this part in 2021 :-)…
Great news! Edita Gruberová is far better I this part than Sondra!
Gruberova WAS better than her, but now she is finished.
In Japan she sang yesterday the entrance of Butterfluy inkl. high D. The audience went wild.
Edita Gruberova is still singing? Wow, long career.
Yes she is but s-h-o-u-l-d n-o-t b-e for many reasons, all of them too painfully obvious.
Demand not being one of them. She has a large and fiercely loyal fan base who never fail to turn up, particularly in Munich. If she makes them so happy then I can’t think of any reason why they should not have her.
If you can call that “singing”.
If you can call that “singing”
I was waiting for my tickets to hear Sondra Radvanovsky, but I have cancelled my petition. I don´t want to punish my ears listening to a geriatric Gruberova. She was great, but now it is painful to hear her. I hope they can fill the theater all that days, but I have some doubts about it. I know many people who cancelled too.