“Angelina is a hard character to portray,” she continues. “So many of my parts have been ‘trouser roles’ (a male character sung by a female the Composer in “Ariadne” is one example). “One thing that’s great is that I’m actually getting to play a girl,” she says with a chuckle. Saturday will be Lindsey’s first professional performance of Angelina, although she did play the role in a student production in 2005 at the Wolf Trap Festival outside of Washington, D.C. For others, it’s a matter of the team with whom you’ll be working, the size of the house, and other things that factor into the decision.”
Some of the roles are the kind of ‘hands-down-yes’ parts that you won’t turn down. “One step at a time, one building block at a time. “That’s the way you build a career,” says Lindsey. Her meteoric rise has landed her roles in well-known houses worldwide, including the Met, Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Aix-en-Provence festival in France, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Seattle Opera, where she created the title role in Daron Hagen’s “Amelia.” Her LAO debut came two years ago as Zaida in another Rossini opera, “The Turk in Italy.”
That’s the sort of hectic, nomadic life Lindsey, 31, has been leading since she graduated from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program six years ago. Georgian soprano Ketevan Kemoklidze takes over after Lindsey departs to the Glyndebourne Festival in England where she will perform the role of the Composer in Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” Lindsey is performing the role of Angelina (the name assigned by librettist Jacopo Ferretti to Cinderella) for the first three performances. LAO Music Director James Conlon will conduct.
Los Angeles Opera is using a co-production from Houston Grand Opera and Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, directed by Spaniard Joan Font in his LAO debut. “What girl doesn’t dream of capturing a prince and living happily ever after?” she laughs heartily.īeginning Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Lindsey gets her chance as she plays the lead role in Gioachino Rossini’s “Cinderella” (or, more properly, “La Cenerentola,” since the performances will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles). The eyes of Kate Lindsey, the young American mezzo-soprano, sparkle at the question of whether as a child she wanted to be Cinderella.
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