This is a great U-TOOB playlist featuring one of our favorite
opera phenomena: mezzos playing men.
This playlist includes Sarah Connolly (a lot), Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato,
Vesselina Karasova, Angelika Kirchschlager, Elina Garanca, Isabel Leonard,
Helene Schneiderman, and Kate Lindsey and costars some of our favorite
sopranos, too (Miah Persson in at least two!!!)!
And then check out La Clemenza di Tito from La Monnaie for more mezzos in pants. (I have a crush
on Swedish mezzo Anna Grevelius as Annio, but I am not sure if I have a crush on her, or on
him.)
Thanks for the tip! I've made a more extensive playlist called "byxroller" ("trouser roles") featuring pretty much everything I find in that department. Here goes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUmLcri7fU&list=PL227373029CAD4070
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. And thanks for the link to your playlist. Mezzos in Pants -- ya gotta love 'em!
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