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Vivaldi aida5/2/2023 ![]() Conductor Nicola Luisotti carefully sculpted this protracted scene into one of profound operatic intimacy. Jagde’s knife-edged voice softened and we heard, finally and with welcome relief, a voice of a sweetness and warmth that matched that of Mlle. Once we arrived at the entombment of Aida and Radames Mr. Leah Crocetto as Aida, Brian Jagde as RadamesĪida’s lover Radames was SFO protÈgÈ Brian Jagde. If there is a star for this current production it is SFO protÈgÈ Leah Crocetto who offered a very sweetly sung Aida, and succeeded in projecting the beauties of the Italian language in an intimate “Ritorna vincitor” - though marred by a premature (surely unintended) drop of the hieroglyphically encrypted show scrim. No echoes at all of the big singers that have always been called upon to evoke the monumental atmospheres commemorating global transformation.Ĭertainly not the 1981 San Francisco production starring Luciano Pavarotti, never-mind-the-name-of-the-opera. Nor of San Francisco’s famed jockstrap-less gay pride Aida, or an imagined specter of a new Zefferelli production recently dismissed by the Met. No echoes of spectacles like the al fresco productions beneath Egypt’s pyramids or Rome’s Baths of Caracalla.
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