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It helped, Davidsen stated, when the Met’s orchestra — led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, its music director — joined the forged in rehearsals. “You wouldn’t assume that it takes 70 extra musicians,” she added, “however they actually assist focus the best way I sing.”
Nézet-Séguin and Davidsen have labored collectively since 2019, when she sang a live performance “Fidelio” with him in Montreal. This “Forza” is their first staged collaboration. He known as her “the dream singer,” not solely due to her voice, but additionally due to “the million shades that she’s discovering in it.”
What units her aside from different sopranos, he stated, is “actually the mix of all these qualities within the service of each model.” And she is attuned and dedicated to the precise sounds, and calls for, of each composer she comes throughout, he added.
For now, the composers Davidsen is most comfy with are from the German repertoire. But, because the “Forza” opening nears, she is assured about Italian opera, too. She additionally feels fortunate, as a star singer provided roles with out an audition, that she has the chance to sing Leonora on a stage just like the Met’s.
“I do know there are extra apparent decisions for this position,” she stated, “so I actually recognize that they nonetheless need me to do it”; many singers wouldn’t get the prospect, and “they change into these one-role singers. If we’re capable of belief different singers, then perhaps the variability can be greater as properly.”
That’s particularly essential, she added, as a result of she is conscious that some gained’t like her Leonora, or her Tosca subsequent season.
“I absolutely stand by the truth that that is my tackle them,” Davidsen stated. “And if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. Then you go and see the subsequent Tosca. It’s OK for me that it’s not for everybody.”
