(Above: Giuseppe Filianoti as Hoffmann at The Met)
We could read Financial Times music critic Martin Berheimer wax poetic about something as mind-numbingly boring as the multi-party federal parliamentary democratic republic of Switzerland and still love every word. Luckily for us, he sticks to reviewing classical music.
His recent FT review of the Metropolitan Opera's Tales of Hoffmann made us happy to hear that (once-vocally-troubled) Italian tenor, Giuseppe Filianoti, unmercifully slammed the tenorific hammers of the mighty Saint Ceci (patron saint of singers) as the love-infatuated lead Hoffmann in Bartlett Sher's 1-year-old production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann for The Metropolitan Opera.
All photos: (AP Photo/Marty Sohl/Met Opera)
(Above: Anna Christy as Olympia and Giuseppe Filianoti as Hoffmann)
(Above: Hibla Gerzmava as Antonia and and Giuseppe Filianoti as Hoffmann)
(Above: Enkelejda Shkosa as Giulietta and Giuseppe Filianoti as Hoffmann)