11th-hour panic at Carnegie Hall
The call came a few hours before Carnegie Hall’s season-opening gala concert: Thomas Quasthoff, one of the stars of the night, had an inflamed vocal chord and couldn’t sing.
Carnegie managers were still searching for a substitute minutes before Wednesday’s final rehearsal for conductor Franz Welser-Most and the Cleveland Symphony. Then someone remembered that German soprano Dorothea Roschmann was in town for her Metropolitan Opera performances of Mozart’s “Idomeneo.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 9, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Monday October 09, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 0 inches; 30 words Type of Material: Correction
Carnegie Hall: A Quick Takes item in Friday’s Calendar section said that the season-opening concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night featured the Cleveland Symphony. It was the Cleveland Orchestra.
They tracked her down at her hotel, and she agreed to fill in by singing arias from Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” But that didn’t end the pre-show drama. The wrong music arrived from the Met for the rehearsal, so a stagehand sprinted the mile to Lincoln Center, got the music and ran back -- in time for the rehearsal.
And the concert celebrating Carnegie’s 116th season went smoothly.
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