A night at the Philharmonic
We went to the Israel Philharmonic last week – beamed live from Jerusalem and featuring the silkily perfect Renee Fleming and the very fine tenor Joseph Calleja. As Jerry Szubin, the Standard’s production manager, put it, the concert – with the pair’s stunning voices and stage presence and the fact that it was being seen all over the world at the same time – was “a miracle.” One critic remarked on the singers’ “vocal chemistry” and another on “the sheer beauty of their duets.”
We do wish, however, that Calleja had gotten to sing “Nessun Dorma,” from Puccini’s “Turandot,” as he had been scheduled to, rather than Fleming’s pre-empting him with an encore, singing Leonard Cohen’s “Halleljuhah,” the unfortunate low point of the evening.
It’s a pity if you missed it – the Standard told you all about it the week before.
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