If you want nice AND Pucciniesque (!), take a look at Manfredo in Italo
Montemezzi's Amore de tre rei: there are extended sections in Acts I and
II. They offer great opportunities for a baritone with the goods; too bad
the opera is rarely done. As an aside, the only commercially available
recording includes Puerto Rican baritone Pablo Elviro in this role. He
was a great singer who, along with Piero Cappuccilli, rarely sang at the
Met during Sherrill Milnes tenure there. Judy, have a hay day with that
sentence.
Mark Montgomery
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Karen Mercedes wrote:
> Sounds like it's time for you to look at Mephistopheles in Busoni's DR
> FAUSTUS and the Drum Major in WOZZECK. The Duke in RIGOLETTO and Paco in
> LA VIDA BREVE aren't exactly "nice guys" either. Peter Grimes, Capt. Vere,
> Aschenbach, King Herod, Peter Quint, Tarquinius, Eleazar, Otello, even
> Pinkerton - these are all hardly "nice guy" roles.
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> KM
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