Joining her – in the role of her jealous husband Renato – will be fellow superstar Dmitri Hvorostovsky: regarded by many to be “the Verdi baritone of our time” ( Los Angeles Times).Īgain, Delos just happens to have convincing recorded proof of the crackling, electric chemistry generated between this pair of living operatic legends in these very roles. She’s headlining in a five-performance run as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera: Verdi’s gripping operatic tale of mistaken infidelity and Regicide. Then, beginning on April 23, opera fans have a double treat in store, as superstar Sondra Radvanovsky further reinforces her glowing reputation as the fastest-rising “true Verdi soprano” ( Opera News) in international opera today.

Fair warning: you’d better be sitting down when he hits his many ringing high notes, else risk going weak in the knees! If you’d care to sample his artistry in both of these roles, simply get your own copy of Marcelo’s recent Delos album, Marcelo Alvarez: 20 Years on the Opera Stage (DE 3472). Rave reviews of Marcelo’s work are almost a matter of routine – and we fully expect that yet another triumph awaits him in his upcoming seven-performance run of “Cav-and-Pag” that finishes up on May 8. While Alvarez made his early mark in mostly lighter roles, his voice has “ripened” over his twenty-plus year career, and he has gradually – and with conspicuous success – taken on ever-weightier roles in operas by Verdi, Puccini and various “Verismo” composers. Legendary tenor Marcelo Alvarez will kick things off on April 14 with his opening night performances of the male lead roles in opera’s most famous double bill: as Canio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, and as Turridu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. Appearing in three major Italian opera productions there will be FOUR Delos recording artists Marcelo Alvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Barbara Frittoli! You’ve all heard astronomers tell us of rare, but highly significant alignments of heavenly bodies, stars included? Well, next month – in April – Delos will be able to claim just such an uncommon confluence of MUSICAL stars … we could also call them “heavenly voices!” That’s because, from mid-April through early May, just such a phenomenon will take place at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera.

Met opera schedule april 2015