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| Gergely Vajda |
The Atlanta Opera?s season starts with a ball on Saturday, but the first production follows a week later. The cast of the production are young and little known, which may served the piece well, according to Vajda.
?My mother ? the Kossuth Prize-winning lyrical soprano Veronika Kincses ? says La bohéme is a piece for young singers, and that is now the case. But these are artists of the highest order, for example, Matthew Curran, who studied in Zurich, where he was the student of László Polgár,? Vajda said.
Mimi is being played by Grazia Doronzio, who was born in Italy but raised in the United States. Bryan Hymel, for whom Vajda had special words of praise, is singing Rodolfo for the first time. Jan Cornelius is playing Marcello, Timothy Kuhn the painter and Andrew Garland Schaunard.
The production is directed by David Gately, who brought Rossini?s Cinderella to the stage in Atlanta two years earlier with Jennifer Larmore.
?Gately is a well known and very busy director in America,? Vajda said. Gately has also directed a production of the Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös?s Angels in America, he added.
Gershwin?s Porgy and Bess as well as Mozart?s Cosi fan tutte are also on the Atlanta Opera?s programme this season.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
