Season Highlights
Lensky Eugene Onegin
Michigan Opera Theatre
Tamino The Magic Flute
Kentucky Opera
Normanno Lucia di Lammermoor
Opernhaus Zürich
Mastro Trabuco La forza del destino
Opernhaus Zürich
Opera Repertoire
Britten
Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia
Gounod
Benvolio Roméo et Juliette
Handel
Varo Arminio
Mozart
Tito La clemenza di Tito
Tamino Die Zauberflöte
Puccini
Nick La fanciulla del West
Ruggero La Rondine
Tchaikovsky
Lensky Eugene Onegin
The Post and CourierLensky, was played by New Orleans native Jamez McCorkle, who is someone for opera fans to follow closely. His tenor voice is substantial, expressive and flexible. It was on full display in the excruciatingly beautiful farewell aria he sings before the duel. He can go from loud to soft, even high in his range, seamlessly. McCorkle has made this role his own.
Philadelphia InquirerBut the singer I most want to hear again is Jamez McCorkle, here as Ruggero, whose voice encompassed the grander Puccini moments but also delivered a level of intimacy that one doesn't often hear in this repertoire.
MittelbayerischeJamez McCorkle (USA) flourishes and sets the foundation for excellence with Lensky’s aria from Tchaikovsky's “Kuda, kuda…