On January 18, the Metropolitan Opera will broadcast a performance of Puccini’s Tosca from last fall featuring the Met debut of the barnstorming British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso and the current reigning Norwegian primadonna Lise Davidsen. Listening to Singers revisits the interview with Davidsen as she was preparing to make her Lyric Opera debut, and the conversation with De Tommaso, who had just made his American debut at Santa Fe Opera.
Lise Davidsen and Freddie De Tommaso
Freddie De Tommaso and Lise Davidsen in rehearsal for "Tosca." (Photo: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera)
Playlist
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Act I, duet, “Ah, quegl’occhi!”
Act III, aria, “E lucevan le stelle”
Freddie De Tommaso, tenor
Lise Davidsen, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra/Paolo Arrivabeni
Rodolfo Falvo: Dicitencello vuie
Francesco Paolo Tosti: Ideale
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata
Freddie De Tommaso, tenor
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Renato Balsadonna
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?” from Fidelio
Lise Davidsen, soprano
Dresden Philharmonic/Marek Janowski
Richard Strauss: “Es gibt ein Reich” from Ariadne auf Naxos
Lise Davidsen, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Strauss: Beim Schlafengehen from Vier letzte Lieder
Lise Davidsen, soprano
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
