Word: micaela
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...beginning, Soprano Leontyne Price sounds outsized, more like Lilith than a simple gypsy, but the opera soon rises to her voltage. Tenor Franco Corelli manages a convincing disintegration as Don Jose, and Baritone Robert Merrill's Escamillo exudes male vanity. Mirella Freni makes a sweet-voiced Micaela. Conductor Herbert von Karajan colors the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra sensuously, generally keeping the tempos down and the temperature up; the smugglers' quintet reaches a high pitch of excitement...
...Whose play, in turn, was based on a real character, Micaela Villegas, a celebrated actress in 18th century Peru who became an aging viceroy's mistress and lived in a dazzling palace he built for her. Her end is shrouded in legend. In his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder relates that her beauty was so marred by smallpox that she never afterwards left her mansion, except when she sought solace in a convent. Her nickname, La Perricholi, is supposedly a combination of chola, which in Peru means a woman of mixed birth, and perra, which...
...Road. Susanna will be Seefried's only role at the Met this season (she will sing it five times). But in signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade...
...first Don José, he proved again that his is probably the finest tenor to be heard today. No actor, he made a brave try to be one, and in the blazing fourth act succeeded. The rest of the cast, notably Frank Guarrera as Escamillo and Nadine Conner as Micaela, rallied to the cause. The orchestra, under Conductor Fritz Reiner, turned in a subtle and glowing performance...
Gueden is not through for the season. She will fly back in February to show the Met's perceptive audience what she can do as Micaela in the Met's new production of Carmen...