Sava Vemic is going to be a star. He was one of our Giulio Gari Foundation winners in 2016. He is very young but the voice is the real thing. I predict a major career for him. He is also a good kid. It hasn't gone to his head.
Donald.
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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 08:44, Angelo Mammano <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Sunday afternoon I attended a surprisingly very good Onegin at Harvard's
> Sanders Theatre. I say surprisingly because the Boston Youth Symphony
> Orchestras are made up of mostly very young kids - the Act 1
> concertmaster looked to be about 10 years old and the Falstaff they did
> several years ago wasn't up to snuff. But the orchestras were really good
> with a very nice string sound and good solos from the wind section. The
> conductor Federico Cortese is doing a great job with these young'uns.
>
> The semi-staged show was very close to fully staged with good direction,
> many costume changes for the soloists and Tatyana actually had a bed to
> lie on plus a writing desk, something you don't see every day in this opera.
> Evelina Dobraceva was a believable Tatyana. She looked the part, she has
> a lovely Slavic voice, meaning that her voice with its somewhat vibrato-less
> sound was just perfect for the role. Markus Werba was the Onegin. His
> voice and appearance were impressive but Garrett Sorensen was a
> disappointment as Lenski. His voice is lackluster and his acting is minimal.
> Jill Grove who seems to be MIA from the Met but very active elsewhere was
> a good Filipyevna. The big surprise for me was the Gremin, Sava Vemic.
> His voice was strong and full and impressive and got the longest applause
> for his aria. Later this season Boston will get its first Rubenstein Demon.
>
> Angelo from Boston
>
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