June 10, 2009
Brrrrr, break out those bearskin coats, music lovers. The iciest heroine in all of operadom is coming to kick off the 2009 season for Walnut Creek-based
Festival Opera.
Puccini’s “Turandot,” the haughty Chinese princess who cries “off with their heads” when her suitors can’t solve her ridiculous riddles, strides the floorboards at the Lesher Center’s Hofmann Theatre for four performances in July. The soprano hurling all those high C’s into the charged atmosphere will be Othalie Graham, last heard here three years ago in the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the same company. But Canadian-born, Philadelphia-trained Graham cut her operatic teeth on the “Turandot” role, singing it first for Opera Delaware in 2004, and thereafter, to high acclaim, for regional opera companies across the country.
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