OperaNews sat down with Sondra Radvanovsky to talk about her continuing rise in stardom and her current roles, all while tabbing her latest Delos release, Verdi Opera Scenes an Essential Recording!
OperaNews:
Now in her early forties, Radvanovsky has genuine star status: in the past decade, she has emerged as the Verdi soprano of choice at the world’s leading opera houses, with solid successes in Il Trovatore, I Vespri Siciliani (in both the French and Italian versions), Stiffelio, Ernani, Luisa Miller, Don Carlo, Aida and Un Ballo in Maschera in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Toronto, London and Milan. The list of her signature roles now includes Tosca — “a blast! I just love nailing those high Cs in Act II” — and she is currently embarked on a multi-season assumption of Donizetti’s three Tudor queens, with her role debut as Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux scheduled for next April in Toronto.
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Verdi Opera Scenes with Constantine Orbelian and Philharmonia of Russia(Delos). There’s a fortuitousness to Radvanovsky’s career, and this 2009 album shows that off: the cover girl filled in for a famous yet mercurial soprano at the eleventh hour, and her participation required her to perform — dauntingly — in a live recording session, in Moscow, alongside genuine Russian celebrity Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
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