We had left him little more than two months ago as Filippo II at la Scala's opening night, where he shook the august opera house's walls with his laryngeal might.
Professional golfer -- and quite accomplished operatic bass, his secondary occupation -- Ferruccio Furlanetto first went golfing with the guy who invented the Big Bertha (the golf club, not the WWII cannon, thank goodness) and owned everybody; then, basking in the warmth of the California winter, il Maestro dressed up as Cervantes's noble loon, unleashed the Italian powah of his bass, slayed a few windmills, and was then elected Governor of California by San Diego's adoring crowds.