Quelle merveille dans les Puritains, Lucia et la Traviata avec le jeune ténor R.Alagna à Orange et son 1er Rigoletto à Marseille remplacée au pied levé par Inva Mula ( quelle surprise ce jour là et ^pas des moindres !!! One on his own is just another gig. Her greatest renown came in 1997 when the impresario Tibor Rudas picked her as one of Three Sopranos, a feminine counterweight to his phenomenally successful Three Tenors. Lucianno Pavarotti died wednesday of pancreatic cancer. I really think it is unfair to the artiste to say that her “greatest renown” came with the Three Sopranos. One of the Three Tenors is gone. I am of course saddened to learn of her premature death, as I would be of anyone’s, but how exactly has her passing “cast a pall over the opera world”? She was a fine performer and good colleague. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. M. Pavarotti excellait aussi dans l’humanitaire, ayant participé à de nombreuses levées de fonds pour la Croix-Rouge. Originally from Delaware, Kathleen became a stalwart on the Italian and French opera circuits after winning the 1985 Salzburg Mozart competition. Thank you. Whatever ails him, or her, tis best to pay the antics no mind. It was, for every second of its seventy minutes, visibly competitive. That engagement will be missing this summer. A standard issue internet grotesque? The Three Tenors lit up the world. Or so the plan goes. Villazon, 34 this week, shares deep Mexican roots with Domingo. By using this site you consent to this use in our Cookie & Privacy Policy | Hosted & Managed in the UK by RocketWP, © 2020 Norman Lebrecht. With these fledglings in tow, Domingo will be the crowning event this summer that kills the Three Tenors brand stone dead and confirms in telly-glued eyes the importance of being Placido in a world beyond Pavarotti. and then keep getting flashy assignments, great reviews and recording contracts and TV appearances. This June, at the World Cup in Germany, Placido Domingo will be going it alone – or, rather, hogging the stage with a very different line-up from the one that has graced every quadrennial football final since the virtually scoreless summer of 1990. The login page will open in a new tab. Changer ), Vous commentez à l’aide de votre compte Google. In Kathleen’s case she sang beautifully and successfully, giving pleasure to audiences and colleagues alike for many years, but only became “World Famous” when she was picked to be one of the “Three Sopranos” which involved a few concerts over a couple of years and was incidental to her long career, though probably a highlight. Changer ), Vous commentez à l’aide de votre compte Twitter.