That's odd. Usually Kwiecien sings a bunch of Casanova-type characters. Is he singing Marcello or Colline? He certainly cannot be singing the role of Benoît the landlord or Alcindoro, Musetta's sugar daddy in Act 2.
I usually see Kwiecien as someone like Escamillo, or Onegin, or Don Giovanni. He's also done Silvio in Pagliacci, Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Sergeant Belcore in The Elixir of Love. But I have never heard of him doing the role of a frustrated painter whose coquettish girlfriend keeps playing with him all the time.
Did I read the cast sheet right?
Marcello! He is the best Marcello I have seen. In fact, over the years, he's been singled out as the only good thing in mediocre performances of a worn-out war-horse.
ReplyDelete"La Boheme" is one of what I call the the Top Four (the other three being "Aida", "Carmen", and "Madama Butterfly"), and it is easy to get careless when the opera you're performing is extremely well-known and popular.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if people consider Kwiecien the best part of a mediocre performance just because he's sexy.
Nothing to do with his sexiness. He is just a fantastic Marcello, plain and simple.
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