The benefit, titled “Puccini with Passion,” will feature soprano Ailyn Pérez and tenor Brian Jagde as they perform selections from the historic composer’s works. Also present will be the artwork created by some of the children who have had their school visited by the Time In Children’s Arts Initiative.
Tenor Brian Jagde, who opens the season singing Calaf in San Francisco before singing Cavaradossi in Zurich and Berlin, answers five questions from the editors of Opera News.
San Francisco Opera’s 95th season opens Friday night, and tenor Brian Jagde joined Gasia Mikaelian on The 9 to talk about his starring role in Puccini’s Turandot.
This is going to be a smash season opener with a wonderful cast of colleagues, and what else can one say about the epic sound of the chorus and orchestra of the San Francisco Opera? They are what made me fall in love with this opera the first time I heard it as an Adler Fellow, with Luisotti conducting. I remember it like it was yesterday.
American tenor Brian Jagde has just made his return to the Royal Opera singing Maurizio in Sir David McVicar’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur. Two of his key roles in his career so far have been Don José in Carmen and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, which he’s performed from Berlin to Munich, from San Francisco to Washington.
Calaf in Puccini’s “Turandot”