Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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June Anderson has a wish list. First, she would like to star in a marvelous, imaginative production of Lucia di Lammermoor. That means, the soprano quickly adds, one utterly unlike the pedestrian ones she has already graced. Anderson would also like to sing the role of Violetta in La Traviata, but declines to do so until a satisfactory stage director can be found. She admits that she cannot think of one. "I can wait," she says philosophically. "But who knows? I may be too old when it finally happens." A third wish is that a fine young tenor would appear...
...maestro Riccardo Chailly, who is on her very short list of preferred conductors, wants her for Rossini's The Turk in Italy, not exactly on opera's hit parade, but that does not matter to Anderson. Major new productions have been lined up in Chicago (finally, perhaps, a satisfying Lucia) and San Francisco (La Sonnambula), as well as a new Semiramide next season...
...show-biz appeal, Blades (he accepts both the English and Spanish pronunciations of his name since his grandfather, Reuben Blades, was born on the British island of St. Lucia) remains ambivalent toward the trappings of fame. One aspect of stardom that Blades finds particularly loathsome is the notion that celebrities are a privileged breed, an elite group that must insulate themselves from the rabble. Instead, the four-time Grammy nominee has tried to remain as accessible to his public as possible. Until just a few years ago, he had his home phone number printed on the back of his album...