Columns linked to La Donna del Lago - MET (2015)

Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato in the Met’s La Donna del...

Thibault Courtois

Strangely, it is the first run ever of La Donna del Lago at the Met, almost two hundred years after it received its premiere. One could argue that this operais rarely put on stage notably because it is an opera for very rare singers with natural Rossini voices able to reach every corner of a 3800 seats concert hall. However, the piece has been capitalizing some interest for the past five years thanks to two superstars who added some of the most difficult arias of this opera to their...