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Sound bites.(Matthew Polenzani)(Brief Article)
Matthew Polenzani, whose buoyant Steersman and ardent Jaquino earned kudos during the Met's 2000-01 season, sings his first David in this month's Die Meistersinger. Polenzani has the kind of sweet, ringing timbre and ease of projection that make these supporting-tenor roles seem the equal of their top-billed counterparts.
This past spring, he got the chance to show his stuff in a lead role -- Lindoro in the Met's L'Italiana in Algeri -- and sailed through the opening scenes with a beauty of tone that never diminished in the face of coloratura hurdles. It wasn't as easy as it sounded. "That role is scary. It's not that I can't do it, but it's not for me in the way other things are for me. I've since turned it down twice, and I'll never do it again. Unless -- my wife, Rosa Maria Pascarella, is a mezzo, and if she's the Isabella...."
In the mean time, admirers of Polenzani's Rossini needn't despair. "I'm moving into slightly heavier rep, but I'd never leave Mozart behind -- or Rossini. I have plans to do [Almaviva in] Barber through 2004 [including at the Met this season]. I don't want to stretch myself in one direction only." He has already taken on ...
- The Met: Live in HD Inaugural Season Favorites Il Barbiere Di Siviglia and the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 16, 2009 700+ words
...first showing as part of The Met: Live in HD series in March...inaugural transmission of The Met: Live in HD series. Directed...includes Ying Huang as Pamina, Matthew Polenzani as Tamino and Nathan Gunn the...inaugural 2006-2007 season of The Met: Live in HD series, Il Barbiere...
- NEW MET SEASON TO FEATURE `BENVENUTO CELLINI,' LA JUIVE'.(LIFESTYLE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) March 12, 2003 700+ words
...Serban, who is making his Met debut, and the sets are by...its first performance at the Met since the 1935-36 season...Siegfried Jerusalem is Herod, Matthew Polenzani is Narraboth and Albert Dohmen makes his Met debut as Jochanaan, a role...
- The Met to be on display in a big way.
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) December 19, 2006 700+ words
...That is when the first of six Met productions will be broadcast...Julie Taymor and conducted by Met Music Director James Levine...inclue Ying Huang as Pamina, Matthew Polenzani as Tamino, Nathan Gunn as...Tatiana for the first time at the Met; Rossini's "The Barber...
- Met Opera launches series of six live broadcasts to movie theaters.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) December 29, 2006 700+ words
...Taymor that stars Ying Huang, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, Erika Mikosa and Rene Pape. The remaining Met operas to be shown in theaters...Opera Radio on Sirius," the Met's new 24-hour satellite...98.7 as part of its weekly Met broadcast series. Tickets...
- SPECIAL VERSION OF MOZART'S 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' FOR CHILDREN FEATURED BY MET
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 21, 2009 700+ words
...Metropolitan Opera's "The Met: Live in HD" Summer Series...Miklosa as Queen of the Night, Matthew Polenzani as Tamino, Nathan Gunn as...summer season, "Mondays at the Met," features the most successful and popular operas from the Met's past seasons in HD and...
- Dame Edna to sing at Met.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) December 22, 2004 700+ words
...sing during the "music lesson scene" in which the beautiful Rosina (Katarina Karneus) and Count Almaviva (Matthew Polenzani) are found in a lovers' tryst. Humphries is starring in Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance! on Broadway.
- Die Zauberflote.(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hofler, Robert October 11, 2004 700+ words
...HOURS, 15 MIN. Tamino Matthew Polenzani First Lady Emily Pulley...nearly unheard of at the Met, and for good reason...fill the gargantuan Met. Neither of her illustrious...never quite filled the Met stage, having been...Tamino and Pamina. Matthew Polenzani and Dorothea ...
- New York.(UNITED STATES)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil March 22, 2005 700+ words
...made a few inroads into the Met, notably with productions...scores. With this splendid new Met production, under the skilled...soprano Renee Fleming, the Met clearly pulled out all the...little spark; American tenor Matthew Polenzani sang an acceptable Count Almaviva...
