Talking about Verdi...

Requiem, Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris, October 22, 2010

Brauer, Zeppenfeld, Gatti, Meli, Gubanova, Stoyanova

Daniele Gatti ..... conductor

Matthias Brauer ... chorus dir

Krassimira Stoyanova ..... Soprano

Ekaterina Gubanova ..... Mezzo-soprano

Stuart Neill Francesco Meli ... Tenor

Georg Zeppenfeld ..... Bass

Orchestre National de France

Chorus of Radio France

Francesco Meli and Isabel Leonard not coming to Paris Opera

And so I've been waiting for Isabel Leonard to come and sing in Paris next month, and I realize only now that she canceled her Rosina in the second run of Il Barbiere at Opéra Bastille :(

We also learned that Francesco Meli pulled our from the new production of La Donna del Lago which will open next June in Paris. As much as I'm sorry not to see him singing in Paris, I am glad he realized that this role was too big for him right now. He's one of the best young tenors and I prefer to see him enlarging his repertoire gradually.   Colin Lee will be singing the role of Rodrigo instead [listen to him here].