Tonight’s performance was Die Zauberflöte, and our interviewee was a special guest—Luciana D’Intino, who is singing Amneris in Aida. D’Intino was special for several reasons: she does not sing frequently in the U.S., preferring to stay closer to home in Italy. (Her Met debut was in Don Carlo in 2005). She also freely admitted that she found New York a bit overwrought for her tastes, and was happy to come to town only occasionally. Ms. D’Intino spoke better English than she gave herself credit for, but still insisted I stay close by to translate for her. I could tell she was careful to keep her Italian vocabulary on a pretty basic level, and almost stumped me only once with the word spaesata. I guessed “homesick, exiled” and it turns out I was close (the dictionary says “lost”).

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