Luciano Pavarotti as "Cavaradossi" and Carol Vaness as "Tosca."
Mozart: Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Vitellia, Fiordiligi, Countess (Marriage of Figaro) and Elettra. These Mozart roles are the ones that put Ms. Vaness on the world's operatic map. She is renowned for her Mozart interpretations, and her command of the Mozartean line combined with a sound classical technique have made these roles very memorable. Fortunately for us, she has recorded all of these roles for posterity.
Verdi: Ms. Vaness has also added various dramatic-spinto roles from the operas
of Giuseppe Verdi to her repertoire. These include Elisabetta in "Don Carlo,"
Elena in "I Vespri Siciliani," the "Trovatore" Leonora, Amelia in "Un ballo
in maschera" and "Simon Boccanegra," Alice Ford in "Falstaff," Desdemona
in "Otello," Violetta in "La Traviata" and Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth". Earlier in her career, Ms. Vaness also sang Gilda in "Rigoletto" at the New York City Opera.
Puccini: Puccini's "Tosca" is another role that Ms. Vaness is famous for. She has
sung this role at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles
Opera, Seattle Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, etc. Ms. Vaness is also
planning to sing Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" at the Seattle Opera in 2004.
Other Puccini roles include Mimi in "La Boheme," and Magda in "La Rondine".
Other roles in her repertoire are Nivian in Albeniz's "Merlin," Iphigenie from Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride," Cleopatra from Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra," Mathilde from Rossini's "Guillaume Tell," Bellini's "Norma," Leonore from Beethoven's "Leonore,"
Blanche from Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmelites," Lehar's Hanna Glawari
from "The Merry Widow," Armida from Handel's "Rinaldo," Leila from Bizet's
"Les Pêcheurs de Perles," Rosalinde in "Die Fledermaus" and Anna Bolena in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena".
Ms. Vaness was also scheduled to sing the following roles, but cancelled: Ariadne
in "Ariadne auf Naxos," Maria Stuarda from Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda," and
Richard Strauss' "Salome." During the previous 2005-2006 opera season, Ms. Vaness cancelled her rôle debuts at New York City Opera in "Ariane et Barbe-bleue" and Austin Lyric Opera's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Ms. Vaness has her own official web site now! However, as far as I can see, no updates have been done to it for months. The Carol Vaness official web site is here.
