An ad copywriter couldn't have asked for a better project: star tenor in troubled marriage meets soprano on stage, and the two fall in love, marry, and record an album of operatic love duets. That may or may not have been the story of how Puccini in Love got made, but the album stands on its own considerable merits. The big news is Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, who despite her association with star tenor Roberto Alagna, may be an unknown quantity for all but opera buffs. The program begins forthrightly with the two in ...
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An ad copywriter couldn't have asked for a better project: star tenor in troubled marriage meets soprano on stage, and the two fall in love, marry, and record an album of operatic love duets. That may or may not have been the story of how Puccini in Love got made, but the album stands on its own considerable merits. The big news is Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, who despite her association with star tenor Roberto Alagna, may be an unknown quantity for all but opera buffs. The program begins forthrightly with the two in dialogue at the beginning of "Mario! Son qui!" from Act 1 of Tosca, as if to assert that the duo are a package deal and that this is not an Alagna vehicle with his spouse along for the ride. Indeed, that selection confirms that Kurzak is indeed not in Alagna's league when it comes to sheer power. But over the course of the program she emerges as quite a distinctive singer, and one awaits with interest her new collaborations with Alagna that have begun to flow from this high-profile...
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