Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 2003/09

From: EClarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Tosca (Not the clarinet....)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:36:57 -0400

In a message dated 9/15/03 3:16:14 AM EST, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org
writes:

<< Elise wrote:

We had a huge discussion about Pavarotti on Operalist last year when he
had
to cancel his final MET Toscas because he was sick.

Surely he would have been singing Cavaradossi?

Even I would suggest he would make a better Cavaradossi than a Tosca!

Matthew
>>

Assuming that you really don't know the usual conventions, we singers often
speak of the opera one is performing in rather than the role one is singing,
esp. for someone like Pavarotti, when there is no question of what role he would
be doing in that show. btw, I saw him in 1999 at the MET as Cavaradossi,
with Ricardo Morales playing the clarinet solos in "e lucevan le stelle", and
they made a fabulous duet. When Pavarotti came out for curtain calls, the first
thing he did was walk to the edge of the stage and acknowledge Rick.

Elise Curran
Orlando

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