LA FORZA DEL DESTINO:Verdi
Original Air Date: 03/11/2006
Noseda; Voigt, Licitra, Delavan, Ramey, Komlósi, Pons
MOD Audio SID.18430208
I love Forza del Destino, but it’s a rather disjointed work, and not an easy sing for ANYONE. I saw Voigt who did the part early in her Met career with the lamented Sergej Larin. For this broadcast, it’s Licitra, also destined to leave us too soon. For me it’s too late for Ramey, Delavan does not impress me and this 2006 broadcast does not catch Voigt in anything like the voice she had a decade earlier. What is MOoD doing featuring this performance when another Sirius Forza broadcast with Tebaldi and Tucker from 1960 only gets an occasional rotation and no presence for Tebaldi in this role in MOoD. Noseda is a quality conductor, but why such special pleading for Voigt and Licitra?
7/22/13 – Also on MOoD (thought I can hardly imagine WHY) Voigt had done a promising Leonora 10 years earlier with Larin, but this later revival with another tenor who died way before his time doesn’t show anyone particularly up to the task. I love Forza, but Milanov, Tebaldi, and Price are in a different world, not to mention Tucker, Bergonzi, or Corelli. The cast at hand are not worthy.
9/12/11 – I’m assuming this is some sort of tribute to the lamented Licitra who never quite fulfilled his promise (the Times paid obituary was one of the longest I can remember). Voigt, who had done a promising Leonora with Larin (who also left us much too soon) 10 years earlier (no broadcast) with Chernov, and a wobble free Plishka, did not bring an artistry to compensate for a significant loss of vocal freshness. I don’t feel a need to revisit this performance.
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