Julia Migenes had already taken her place at the previous Lulu so it wasn’t quite the last-minute triumph the media trumpeted. Surely her most infamous Met disappearance was from the live telecast of the three-act Lulu which she had premiered in Paris in the Patrice Chéreau production two years earlier. As it turned out she appeared just thrice in the triple-header, once she turned Suor Angelica over to Diana Soviero and for her final go she sang only Giorgetta.īut by then New York audiences would have been familiar with Stratas’s unpredictability.

I hadn’t yet moved to New York but friends who lived here cursed her loudly for not showing up at the performance they’d bought expensive tickets for. But why?Īfter the Zeffirelli Bohème Stratas vanished from the Met for seven years, returning as a triple threat in a revival of Il Trittico. I understand, though, a Met revival is planned with Sonya Yoncheva stepping into the Stratas’s role of Marie Antoinette.

Her aching vulnerability was again a major attraction of the world premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles which I enjoyed at the time and was indeed a raging success but hasn’t aged all that well.

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