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| Papageno/ Papagena |
| Aria Data Base for Papageno/ Papagena |
| San Francisco Opera Papageno/ Papagena History |
| Papageno - Lyric baritone role. He is a birdcatcher. Papagena - Soubrette soprano role. She is a birdwomen and future mate of Papageno. |
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| Papageno |
| David Malis |
| Michael Kraus |
| As the boisterous bird-catcher who lives only for eating, drinking and love, Kranzle deployed a resonant, lithe baritone that was full-bodied without being too meaty. His comic timing was impeccable -- he got all his laughs without hamming or overplaying a thing -- and he even showed a talent for the quick ad-lib when a stage effect went awry in Act 1. . . . Marnie Breckenridge a picture of avian romance as Mrs. Bird-catcher, Papagena./ Review |
| Papagena |
| Geraldine Williams |
| Claudette Peterson |
| Cheryl Parrish |
| Marnie Breckenridge |
| Sylvia Davis |
| Shigemi Matsumoto |
| Pamela South |
| Suzanne Ramo |
| Jochen Schmeckenbecher |
| Suzanne Ramo |
| Johannes Martin Kr�nzle |
| Papagena, Papagena, Papagena! Weibchen, Taubchen |
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| Johannes Martin Kr�nzle and Marnie Breckenridge |
| Nikki Einfeld and Lucas Meachem |
| When Papageno wanted to kill himself before because of Nikki Einfeld (the really cute Papagena he didn't meet yet), Ms. Rosenberg came out, dressed as a golden tree, with a noose hanging from her, so Papageno could hang himself. In the program, there was a star next to Ms. Rosenberg's name, and on the bottom of the page, there was the explanation: "San Francisco Opera debut." Even for her first time, I thought she was a very funny tree./ Reveiw |
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| San Francisco Opera General Director Pamela Rosenberg (Tree) Lucas Meachem |
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| Maltman's singing is impossibly rich, with a wealth of tonal color and plenty of easy power, and his diction helped open up expressive worlds./ Review |
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| His reward for being generally good-hearted was a feathery Papagena, Rhoslyn Jones, who starred in a spectacular costume change/ SFCV |
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| Pamela South |