Jagde returns to the role of Don Alvaro in Verdi’s La forza del Destino twice this season, first at London’s Royal Opera House in the autumn, and later at The Metropolitan Opera, which will receive a Live in HD international broadcast. He stars as Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot with Opéra national de Paris and for his debut in Japan (TBA). In the spring, he makes his long-awaited house debut at Teatro alla Scala as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana, and he then sings his first performances at Teatro Regio di Parma as Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca.
Read Full BioBrian Jagde sings on the world's leading stages. Soon the US tenor will be heard again in Vienna, where he feels particularly loved.
... this performance abounded in crackling energy, sure-paced suspense, romantic reverie and thrilling singing from Radvanovsky and Jagde ... In Jagde she (Radvanovsky) had a tenor who could match her soaring power. It’s hard to believe that he spent almost 10 years early in his career as a baritone. On Thursday his enormous, vibrant voice was capped by exciting top notes ... it’s hard to complain when you have a singer with such a big, beefy instrument.
Opera expert Fred Plotkin speaks with tenor Brian Jagde on IDAGIO.
Those operas and others vanished with the final eight weeks of the Met’s season. So we asked some of the singers who had been waiting years to perform them to give us some musical phrases that they — and we — lost. Here are their voices, and edited excerpts from the conversation
