Michael Spyres’ Delos release A Fool For Love might not be out on CD yet, but it’s already getting some major attention. New York City classical station WQXR published a list of 10 Opera Recordings to Get this Fall yesterday, and A Fool for Love was number two on the list!
From WQXR:
By Olivia Giovetti
Michael Spyres, A Fool for Love (Delos, Sept. 27)
Sweet-voiced American tenor Michael Spyres made waves this summer in Caramoor’s Guillaume Tell, a rare stopover in the States from his European home base. His debut solo recording for Delos hints that this may change soonest—if he wants. In the meantime, we have a swoony collection of standards from works like La fille du regiment, Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier, offering up a calling card for a singer with boundless promise.
Read the full list on WQXR’s Opera Blog
MICHAEL SPYRES
A FOOL FOR LOVE
Tenor Arias
“Michael Spyres has a lovely, liquid tenor, all honey for love duets and some metal for cries of outraged honor.” – John Yohalem, from Opera Today
You may well be hard-pressed to name a classic opera that lacks a love-story – or a tenor as the main romantic hero. Accordingly, emerging American tenor Michael Spyres has come up with a fresh and fascinating pretext for A Fool for Love: his new collection of tenor arias on Delos.
Michael has carefully selected thirteen mostly well-known arias by composers ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky, encompassing a staggering array of love-related circumstances and emotions. He then sequenced them so as to tell the love-story of a single romantic protagonist. The album’s booklet contains a two-act “plot synopsis,” in which each segment of our hero’s story is indexed to the corresponding aria.