Marcello Giordani

Last year, I profiled Marcello Giordani for Time Out New York but did not blog it, because I was in Italy (sigh of longing).

Giordani as Edgardo… Can he possibly top the girly, achingly vulnerable portrayal of Giuseppe Filianoti? And will Don Peppino himself deliver on his promise, given his recent and protracted illness? (He reportedly is well now, in Hamburg rehearsing for his role début as Hoffmann in what sounds like a wild staging.)

Remember, people: In Donizetti’s time, Lucia was considered a tenor’s opera.