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Stretching the tenor
Posted by John Schultz on 27 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: The Met
I’m glad Giuseppe Filianoti is back in the saddle at the Met after getting an ignominious bounce out of the La Scala production of Don Carlo. Still - lots of light, lyric tenors try to sing roles that are too big for their britches. Maybe Filianoti needs to stick with roles that are even lighter tha Verdi. This article from the NYT says it all. Nobody wants the Duke of Mantua to have constricted high notes…