CHRIS THURMAN: Global opera star returns home for ‘The Pearl Fishers’
28 April 2023 - 05:00
When I call Levy Sekgapane, he is at home in Munich recovering from the flu. “My body just gave up,” he tells me — small wonder, given that he has just climbed Mount Everest after only two days of preparation.
That is, he performed the part of Arturo in Bellini’s bel canto opera The Puritans at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris: “It’s the Mount Everest of bel canto. I’ve been waiting to do it for a long time; if you don’t have a bel canto background, you don’t have a chance with this role. You have to have sung everything else before you get there. And it happened by chance in the end.”..
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