On Sun, 13 May 2001, Jeffrey Snider wrote:
> Which leads me to another point. The days of learning four or five > roles and having a career are GONE! One of my teachers at Indiana > told us that he could have had a career just singing Manrico, > Cavaradossi, Rodolfo, and Canio. Look at the schedules of the opera > companies. Oh, yes, they still do Trovatore, Tosca, Boheme, and > Pagliacci, but they are also doing Streetcar named Desire, A View > form the Bridge, Cold Sassy Tree, Emmeline, you get the point.
And when we have such a high-profile example as Placido Domingo proving that it is physically possible to learn (throughout a career) and perform over 100 roles AND become the world's leading opera singer - well, I fear that such an example makes it impossible for other singers to build careers that are too much less prodigious.
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