Limmie Pulliam performing the title function in The Ordering of Moses with the Oberlin Orchestra and Oberlin choirs at Carnegie Corridor in January 2023. / Photograph credit score: Fadi Kheir
Final month Parterre Field was unhappy to listen to of the loss of life of beloved tenor Limmie Pulliam. Since re-launching his profession within the early 2020s, he loved explicit success in essentially the most difficult spinto repertoire.
“Pulliam’s meltingly lyrical tone should be among the many most lovely within the enterprise,” stated Cameron Kelsall about Pulliam’s Radames in a efficiency with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra final yr, “and if he was not essentially the most thrilling actor onstage, he compensated with sincerity and tireless stamina.” The late Patrick Mack, of Pulliam’s Manrico in LA in 2021, equally added that “when he launched into ‘Di quella pira,’ taking the primary two phrases in a single breath, it was probably the most thrilling experiences I’ve ever had within the theater.”
At this time’s Grand Tier Seize Bag pays tribute to a beloved, if underutilized, artist with a number of the Verdi Requiem from a efficiency in Leipzig recorded in 2024. Pulliam’s conductor right here, Franz Welser-Möst, lately introduced his studying of the Verdi Requiem to Carnegie Corridor final fall.
Verdi: Messa da Requiem, “Ingemisco”
Limmie Pulliam
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
Gewandhaus Leipzig 12 April 2024
Broadcast
