It is with great pleasure, great astonishment, and great excitement that I introduce to you my next disc:

Rossini Arias: Colbran, the Muse…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXNSTNT6jw

I’m enjoying what is being billed as my “Rossini Year”, having started with Rosina in London this summer, bringing her back for the opening this Saturday back at the MET with a brilliant cast, this disc launches on Tuesday here in the States (soon elsewhere, as well!), and finishing the season with my first Elena’s in Donna del Lago. There are lots of little black notes in my immediate future, and hopefully yours as well, as I would LOVE for you to take a listen to the disc, enjoy the genius that is Rossini – inspired by his admiration and love for Isabella – and help me celebrate this most special of composers!!!

And, in a short health update – for the record, I just finished the final dress rehearsal of Barbiere here at the MET, and I finished standing on both legs. That felt GREAT!!!!

Hoping everyone’s opera-going season is off to as great a start as mine!