Hey, everybody, Antoni here with a set of operatic dream casts I have in store for you. For someone who has been a huge aficionado of opera ever since I was nine years old, I thought it would be fun if I came up with a set of dream casts of twelve of my favorite operas. What better place to start than with some of my favorite Bel Canto operas if I were to travel back to the 2000s. This is also my contribution for this year's Red Ribbon Reviewers month.
Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola
Giovanna Seymour- Nancy Fabiola Herrera
Smeton- Christine Rice
Enrico VIII- Jaco Huijpen
Riccardo Percy- Roberto Alagna
Lord Rochefort- Graeme Broadbent
Sir Hervey- Matthew Beale
Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Elisabetta I- Ruxandra Donose
Maria Stuarda- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola
Anna Kennedy- Valentina Kutzarova
Talbot- Franz Hawlata
Leicester- Roberto Alagna
Cecil- Sebastian Holecek
Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux- Roberto Alagna
Elisabetta I- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola
Duca di Nottingham- Carlos Alvarez
Sara- Stephanie Blythe
Gualtiero Raleigh- Giovanni Furlanetto
Lord Cecil- Colin Judson
Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia Ashton- Marlis Petersen
Edgardo Ravenswood- Paul Groves
Enrico Ashton- Lado Ataneli
Raimondo Bidebent- Hans Peter König
Arturo Bucklaw- Chad Shelton
Normanno- Saverio Fiore
Alisa- Atala Schöck
Gaetano Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix
Linda- Marlis Petersen
Carlo- Paul Groves
Pierrotto- Elizabeth Bishop
Maddalena- Michaela Schuster
Prefetto- Carlo Colombara
Marchese di Boisfleury- Maurizio Muraro
Antonio- Carlos Alvarez
L'Intendante- Chad Shelton
Vincenzo Bellini's Norma
Norma- Luba Orgonasova
Pollione- Antonio Nagore
Oroveso- Roberto Scandiuzzi
Adalgisa- Zheng Cao
Flavio- Will Hartmann
Clotilde- Patricia Risley
Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula
Amina- Elena Mosuc
Elvino- Ramon Vargas
Conte Rodolfo- Roberto Scandiuzzi
Teresa- Iris Vermilion
Lisa- Dawn Kotoski
Alessio- Michele Pertusi
Notaio- Kevin Conners
Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Giulietta- Natalie Dessay
Romeo- Beatrice Uria Monzon
Tebaldo- Roberto Sacca
Capellio- Albert Dohmen
Lorenzo- Hao Jiang Tian
Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani
Elvira- Mary Dunleavy
Arturo- Marcelo Alvarez
Riccardo- Roberto Servile
Gualtiero- Clive Bayley
Giorgio- Giacomo Prestia
Bruno- Matthew Polenzani
Enrichetta- Stephanie Novacek
Gioacchino Rossini's Semiramide
Semiramide- Hellen Kwon
Arsace- Sonia Ganassi
Azema- Laura Claycomb
Idreno- Chris Merritt
Mitrane- Jeffrey Francis
Assur- John-Paul Bogart
Oroe- Kristinn Sigmundsson
L'Ombra di Nino- Walter Fink
Gioacchino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Figaro- Paolo Gavanelli
Almaviva- Roberto Sacca
Rosina- Natalie Dessay
Dottor Bartolo- Gilles Cachemaille
Don Basilio- Kristinn Sigmundsson
Berta- Jadwiga Rappé
Fiorello- Christian Gerhaher
Ufficiale- Detlef Roth
Gioacchino Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims
Madama Cortese- Klara Kolonits
Corinna- Diana Damrau
Marchesa Melibea- Kate Aldrich
Contessa di Folleville- Anna Christy
Conte di Libenskof- Michael Schade
Cavalier Belfiore- José Bros
Don Luigino- Steve Davislim
Don Alvaro- Andrea Concetti
Antonio- Carlos Alvarez
Don Profondo- Hans Peter König
Lord Sidney- Carlo Colombara
Don Prudenzio- Stephen Milling
Barone di Trombonok- Maurizio Muraro
Zefirino- Dietmar Kerschbaum
Gelsomino- Peter Marsh
Maddalena- Stephanie d'Oustrac
Modestina- Ailish Tynan
Delia- Sabina Puertolas
So, fellow opera fans, these are my dream casts for my favorite Bel Canto operas if ever I wanted to go back in time to the 2000s. Please let me know if you also have a dream cast for these twelve Bel Canto operas. Happy Holidays and stay safe, everybody.