Ahoy there! After lacking the Met’s bel canto Triple Crown final season (two of which featured tenor Lawrence Brownlee), I’m trying ahead to Washington Live performance Opera’s manufacturing of Vincenzo Bellini’s Il pirata in Might. I’m overdue for some bel canto and WCO has traditionally accomplished it effectively.
Brownlee will star because the swashbuckler Gualtiero reverse soprano Angela Meade as Imogene (his love curiosity) and baritone Will Liverman as her husband, Ernesto. Brownlee and Meade sang Oreste and Ermione, respectively, in WCO’s 2023 manufacturing of Gioachino Rossini’s rarity Ermione, one of the vital fiery and thrilling nights of opera I’ve skilled, and I’m trying ahead to listening to them collectively once more. This time, their characters’ love can be requited, although with one other tragic ending. It is going to even be good to have Liverman again so quickly after his sturdy Zurga in WCO’s Les pêcheurs de perles final season.
Andrew Lokay
Andrew Lokay started his profession as an opera fan on the San Francisco Opera, the place the primary efficiency he noticed was Madama Butterfly. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford College with a Bachelor of Arts in worldwide relations and French with honors in worldwide safety research. He now lives in Washington, DC and is a frequent viewers member for opera and theatre within the nation’s capital.
