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Sound bites.(about James Westman, currently Germont in Dallas Opera's La Traviata)
James Westman, currently Germont in Dallas Opera's La Traviata, learned early in life that a singer's career is full of hard knocks. "I started as a boy treble. I sang with the American Boychoir, toured with the Boston Symphony singing the fourth movement of Mahler's Fourth. Pretty great stuff for a kid. Then, when I was a guest student at the Vienna Boys Choir--in C choir, something like that--my voice started to change, and I was told, 'Mr. Westman, you are going home tomorrow.' The next day I was back on the farm, shoveling manure for my father."
The 600-acre Westman farm in St. Mary's, Ontario, has been in the baritone's family for "literally hundreds of years. My dad wanted me to take it over, but I chose opera instead. My relationship with him has been tumultuous. People are shocked when they see how much Verdi I've sung already--I'll be doing my sixtieth performance of Germont this season, and I'm only thirty-one--but I can relate to those stormy paternal relationships that Verdi writes so beautifully. My heart and soul is in those guys. I think that's why Verdi is easier for me to sing now than some Mozart stuff."
After his treble days were ...
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