| re: recordings of musicals with opera singers | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:56 am EDT 09/21/24 | |
| In reply to: re: recordings of musicals with opera singers - Chromolume 11:33 pm EDT 09/20/24 | |
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| I agree about Reardon, but then I feel similarly about most of the recorded Gabeys, even Yazbeck to some degree. The only recorded Gabey who sounds right for the character is Don McKay, and he is lovely in some of it, but in a few places he sings with inappropriate pop mannerisms. Brian Sullivan also didn't much look like a Sam Kaplan. He had been a college football player and he was the replacement Gaylord Ravenal in the 1946 revival of Show Boat. He doesn't seem to have much looked like a nebbishy Jewish student who could be easily intimidated by some punk kid in the same building. He had a major Met career, even though he's long been almost completely forgotten, with Street Scene probably the main thing that has kept his name at all known, except to hardcore opera fans. His Met roles included Lohengrin, Tamino, Rodolfo, Pinkerton, Admètte to Flagstad’s Alceste, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Narraboth, Grigory in Boris Godunov, and Matteo in Arabella. And it's not like he just covered those roles and only got to go on in them once or twice. In the seasons he sang those roles, he was usually the primary singer of those roles, and some of them he played in several seasons. I think there are broadcasts of him in all of those roles, and for several of those roles he was heard in more than one broadcast. Sadly, he seems to have run into major career trouble after the Met stopped hiring him. He is believed to have committed suicide. |
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